The Attributive and Stylistic Determination of the Internal Picture of Smokers’ Psychological Health

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Leonid Gudkin et al.

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The article is devoted to theoretical substantiation and empirical research of features of determination of the internal picture of health of the person in the contexts of personal predispositions, affective states, cognitive-behavioral coping strategies, and quality of life and subjective parameters of healthy functioning of an individual. coping strategies of mediation of experience; personal conditionality of the internal picture of health; subjective assessment of quality of life and health; neuropsychological and neuro-personological invariants. Developed the idea of the relationship of the system of concepts: "attributive styles", "cognitive-behavioral strategies", "internal picture of health", "neuropsychological invariants of subjective attitude to health", "personal conditioning".Neuropsychological features of experiencing the internal picture of smoker’s health are identified and systematized.The peculiarities of determining the internal picture of a smoker’s health with the leading patterns and tendencies of using coping strategies are determined. It was found that the content of the internal picture of human health when using constructive transformative cognitive-behavioral coping strategies are represented by such invariants as: "Ability to autonomy", "Physical security and viability", "Constructive self and environment", "Self-control and integrity", "Achievement and independence", "Demanding and hard work", "Proactivity", "Cognitive ability". For people with a predominance of constructive adaptive strategies, the content of the internal picture of health is formed by such factors as: "Situational capacity", "Focus on medical and social care", "Compensatory life satisfaction", "Balance of resources", "Dependence", "Excessive psychologization", "Painful social functioning", "Euphoria and unrealism"," Eco-dependence", "Pro-sociality ". The content of the internal picture of the health of people who are characterized by unconstructive coping strategies, which consists of such invariants as: "Physicality", "Irrational fears", "Rigidity and unconstructiveness", "Unhappiness, avoidance", "Forced activity". The internal picture of individuals' health has been shown to be more variable when using constructive cognitive-behavioral coping strategies.

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