The intellectual resource of the person as a factor For the choice of the protectivaly-overcoming behavior

Abstract

The article presents the results of the study of the specificity of mechanisms of psychological protection and coping strategies in students with different indicators of stylistic and productive characteristics of intelligence sphere. A resource-based approach to stress management is being actively developed when considering coping behavior as a dynamic process within the transactional and integrative approaches to stress formation. There are various points of view regarding the types, criteria for evaluating efficiency, characteristics, options for defining the concept of "resource", the analysis of which allows to consider this construct as all those mental factors, depending on which problems of adaptation to stressful situation are solved easier or vice versa, more difficult. The mastery of a tense situation is mainly due to the insufficient quantity and quality of resources, which are sufficiently constant and constitute a system in which everyone has a place. An important resource of protective-overcoming behavior mastery of a personality is the intellectual sphere. Intellectual resource is considered as a set of productive and stylistic properties of intelligence.  In the context of professional activity and taking into account its specificity, intellectual abilities and cognitive styles are in some way interconnected, forming an intellectual resource of the individual. The concept of "intellectual resource" is operationalized in terms of the correlation of stylistic and productive properties of intelligence, namely through general criteria of cognitive styles interdependence / interdependence, impulsiveness / reflexivity, rigidity / inflexibility of cognitive control (stylistic and psychometric properties of the development of psychic properties of intelligence)  intelligence). It is shown that students with high intellectual resources are more likely to use active coping strategies and students with low intellectual protection mechanisms.