THE RELATIONSHIP OF COPING STRATEGIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE WITH THE HARDINESS LEVEL OF THE CONVICTS WITH THE LONG TERMS FOR SERVING PUNISHMENT


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The paper studies the positive psychological capabilities of the convicted with the long terms for serving punishment. The author presents the statistical information of the Federal Service for Execution of Punishment (Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia) for the year 2015. The author highlights the importance of studying the viability characteristics of the convicts with the long terms for serving punishment and defines the terms of punishment, which are considered as the long-term (over 10 years). The paper reveals the history of the discovery of the hardiness and its components phenomenon by S. Maddi and S. Kobasa. The hardness is considered as a personal characteristic, which serves as the resource for the prevention of negative personality changes in the extreme conditions of a correctional institution. The author presents the theoretical review of publications and studies concerning the state of knowledge of hardiness in foreign and Russian science and describes the structure of hardiness and its relationship with other similar features that characterize a person’s ability to overcome successfully the hardships and to exist effectively in the extreme conditions. The paper presents foreign and Russian techniques for hardiness measurement. The author describes in detail a psychodiagnostic survey of 532 convicts (495 males and 37 females) with a long term of imprisonment from nine regions of Russia, who serve sentences for serious crimes, carries out the comparative analysis and specifies the hardiness features of the convicts with the long terms for serving punishment depending on their sex. The paper presents the results of the study of coping strategies, psychological defenses, determines the dominant types of coping strategies and psychological defenses of the convicts with different levels of hardiness. The author reveals the prospects of the application of the technique for measuring hardiness of the convicts in the terms of long isolation from the society. The paper gives the data of the survey of correctional officers on the subject of the. The author considers the promising directions of the study of hardiness and its components of the convicts with the long terms for serving punishment.

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Tatiana Vladimirovna Bystrovа

Vologda Institute of Law and Economics of the Federal Service of Execution of Punishment, Vologda

Author for correspondence.
Email: tanya.bystrova2012@mail.ru

researcher of the Scientific-Organizational Department

Russian Federation

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