Goal of the research was to study conditionality of overcoming strategies in difficult situations of social interaction by personal representations of attitude to others among medical students. Material and methods. 134 first-year students of Saratov State Medical University n.a. V. I. Razumovsky took part in the comparative diagnostic study. Results. Comparison of average indices of various strategies evidence in coping behaviour allowed revealing statistically significant dependence of coping behaviour modi in difficult situations of social interaction upon types of personal representations of attitude toward others and gender features of forming effective strategies of coping behaviour among medical students. Conclusion. Correlation between coping behaviour modi in difficult situations of social interaction and typology of personal representations of attitudes toward others among medical students was marked.
Veretelnikova Yu.Ya., Chernyshkova E.V., Belyakov A.Ye. Medical Students' Personal Determinants of Overcoming Strategies in Difficult Situations // Saratov Journal of Medical Scientific Research, Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2013, pp. 132-136