The objective of the work is to study personal experience component of life threatening events and coping strategies among men, participants in road traffic accident. Basic beliefs, life-meaning orientations, subjective perception of time as personal experiences of accident are interrelated with active coping strategies with the ability to assimilate new experience, change the existing concept of the world at a relevant principle of reality. The choice of active coping strategies by examinees is associated with cognitive assessment of life threatening events as they can overcome their own or with help of others as well as with the possibility to find the meaning in a life threatening event with the ability to appreciate and benefit past experiences with positive self image. It is identified criteria of ineffective experience of traffic accident by person: loss of meaning of life, the lack of goals and prospects for the future, perception about the time " time does not exist" , " time has stopped" , negative subjective perception of time, fear, despair and indifference in the look of the future.
Ruslan V. Kadyrov, Vitaliy V. Kalita, Irina I. Cheremiskina, Elena F. Bolenkova and Elena V. Sadon. Experience Acute Stress Reactions Among Men,
Participants of Road Traffic Accidents (RTA).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36478/sscience.2016.6884.6890
URL: https://www.makhillpublications.co/view-article/1818-5800/sscience.2016.6884.6890