Analysis of coping strategies in military amputees: main types, level of expression and relationship with socio-demographic characteristics

Based on the approaches found in the relevant literature and the obtained empirical data, three groups of coping strategies were identified in military personnel who had amputations during the full-scale war of the Russian federation against Ukraine: active-productive, active-semi-productive, and passive-unproductive. The coping strategies specific to each group were listed. It was found that there are certain achievements and limitations in the use of coping strategies by military amputees. A statistically significant relationship was revealed between coping strategies in crisis situations in military amputees and their socio-demographic characteristics (age, marital status, presence of children), which is manifested in the fact that older military personnel as well as those who live in an official marriage or in a civil one and have families and children are more oriented to the use of active, productive and semi-productive coping strategies.