Coping behaviour in children with normal and abnormal development: new methodological instruments for research

The formation of coping behavior in children is influenced by the inner mechanisms of mental development, particularly, by sexual dimorphism. However, the course of ADHD and other developmental disorders distorts this influence to a considerable extent. The coping style of deaf children is characterized by destructive externalizing and distancing coping, which is practically uncharacteristic of children of the same age with normal hearing. In deaf and hard of hearing children, the formation of a specific type of coping strategies takes place, namely, the formation of internal strategies of coping with stress, which, too, to a less extent are peculiar to children with normal sensory development.