Non-Material Resources of the Population in the New Adaptation Cycle

The period of epidemiological instability created by the new coronavirus infection and implementation of countermeasures has made a complex of adaptational tasks actual for various groups of Russian population. As the experience of socio-economic adaptation of the past decades shows, the variety and success of implementing behaviour models in high degree depends on the level of non-material resource potential development.The materials of the representative sociological survey conducted by ISAP RANEPA in 2020 shows the structure and differentiation of non-material resource potential of the Russian population in the acute phase of the epidemiological crisis. The author considers this very period to be the beginning of a new adaptive cycle which demands various social groups to mobilize the accumulated abilities to build successful models of behaviour in an unstable external environment. According to the results of the survey, the population is significantly differentiated by the level of available non-material resources: the integral index created on the basis of indicators of education, health and social connections demonstrates that the resource-availability lower than average characterizes 35,6% of the population, while 36,6% have the average level and 27,8% are highly provided with resources. The different level of non-material resources development leads not only to differentiation by professional status, but also to inequality in capacity to adapt to a crisis situation. It is reflected both in the greater stability in employment of the group with high non-material resources and in their more stable financial situation. Meanwhile, the problem of underuse of accumulated individual resources and barriers to achieving sufficient financial and social statuses even for representatives of well-off resource groups remains actual.