Coping strategies and procrastination in professional activities of medical personnel

medical workers, more often than other professions can experience stress, as they are responsible not only for health, but also for the lives of other people, which can be expressed as a predisposition to non-constructive types of coping behavior, it may be due to the fact that against the background of a large chronic overload and emotional exhaustion, instead of constructive problem solving medical workers go away from problems, postponing their solution, which can lead them into a vicious circle of postponing things, or in another way to procrastination. That most often leads to a decrease in performance in professional activity, so the purpose of our work is to identify the relationship between the level and nature of procrastination with the leading coping strategies of health care workers. Research objectives are: to analyze the prevailing coping strategies among health care workers and their relationship with procrastination; empirical study of the relationship between the level and nature of procrastination and preferred coping strategies among health care workers. The results of the empirical study indicate that there is a stable positive relationship between the level of procrastination and the choice of coping strategies such as confrontation, distancing, escape-avoidance, it tells us that with the increase in the level of procrastination in the study sample, the intensity of using ineffective coping strategies increases. And the inverse relationship with measures such as self-control and partly with positive reappraisal. This study can serve as a basis for developing a training program to reduce procrastination by developing effective coping strategies in health care providers in the future.

procrastination, personality-driven, situation-driven, coping strategies, noeffective coping strategies, medical workers