The personal coping behavior: research review

This article is dedicated to the review of national and foreign studies in the eld of the personal coping behaviour. The aim of the review is to analyze the available scienti c research, the existing classi cations of coping behavior, the approaches to its study as well as to characterize the current status of this problem. The review provides a brief history of the coping ideas development in national and foreign psychological literature, lists the main science and practice areas which are emphasized as the most relevant and promising for the study of coping. The research presents various points of view regarding the interrelation of coping strategies and the protective mechanisms of the psyche. The study indicates the most notable classi cations of coping behavior and reveals the main distinctions between them. We have attempted to characterize the existing scienti c approaches to the study of the personal coping behavior thus have identi ed three main approaches each of which is based on its own notions of coping behavior. These approaches interpret the phenomenon of interest in di erent ways and o er dif-ferent models for describing the coping process. In addition to the above, the review analyzes modern theoretical models describing stress-coping behavior of a person taking modern empirical data into account.