TY - JOUR

T1 - Self‐Determination as a Mechanism for Personality Sustainability in Conditions of Daily Stress

AU - Kostromina, Svetlana

AU - Moskvicheva, Natalia

AU - Zinovyeva, Elena

AU - Odintsova, Maria

AU - Zaitseva, Evgenia

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

PY - 2022/5/1

Y1 - 2022/5/1

N2 - During the COVID‐19 pandemic, uncertainty, threat to life, and repeated lockdowns have significantly undermined people’s psychological well‐being. In such situations, the basic needs for self‐determination (SDT) are disrupted—autonomy, connectedness, and competence—but it is the resulting dissatisfaction that actualizes a search for strategies to cope with the problem. The objective of this article is to critically review the literature on various ways that people are coping with specific experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic and their relationship to basic needs to maintain sustainability. We searched on the Web of Science CC database for relevant studies (2020– 2021) and their systematization from the standpoint of Self‐Determination Theory (SDT). This showed the dynamics of coping methods, reflecting a transition from confusion when confronted with stress, to the selection of effective strategies, confirming that when basic needs are blocked for a long time, people begin to search for a way to satisfy them. We present three levels of grouped coping methods: (1) physiological, (2) behavioral, and (3) cognitive, demonstrating their interrelationship with orientation (to oneself or to the context), assessment (a threat or a challenge), and basic psychological needs. The proposed model opens up prospects for creating effective coping and training programs for sustainable development of the individual in crisis situations.

AB - During the COVID‐19 pandemic, uncertainty, threat to life, and repeated lockdowns have significantly undermined people’s psychological well‐being. In such situations, the basic needs for self‐determination (SDT) are disrupted—autonomy, connectedness, and competence—but it is the resulting dissatisfaction that actualizes a search for strategies to cope with the problem. The objective of this article is to critically review the literature on various ways that people are coping with specific experiences during the COVID‐19 pandemic and their relationship to basic needs to maintain sustainability. We searched on the Web of Science CC database for relevant studies (2020– 2021) and their systematization from the standpoint of Self‐Determination Theory (SDT). This showed the dynamics of coping methods, reflecting a transition from confusion when confronted with stress, to the selection of effective strategies, confirming that when basic needs are blocked for a long time, people begin to search for a way to satisfy them. We present three levels of grouped coping methods: (1) physiological, (2) behavioral, and (3) cognitive, demonstrating their interrelationship with orientation (to oneself or to the context), assessment (a threat or a challenge), and basic psychological needs. The proposed model opens up prospects for creating effective coping and training programs for sustainable development of the individual in crisis situations.

KW - coping

KW - COVID‐19

KW - daily stress

KW - personality

KW - self‐determination

KW - self‐determination theory (SDT)

KW - sustainability

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U2 - 10.3390/su14095457

DO - 10.3390/su14095457

M3 - Review article

AN - SCOPUS:85129858850

VL - 14

JO - Sustainability

JF - Sustainability

SN - 2071-1050

IS - 9

M1 - 5457

ER -