Изследване на релациите „копинг стратегии – ръкост“ при мениджъри
Studying the relationships between coping strategies and handedness among managers

Author(s): Ivanka Asenova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Neuropsychology
Published by: Международно висше бизнес училище
Keywords: coping strategies; handedness; managers
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the results of a study of the relations "coping strategies - handedness" among managers. In order to verify the hypothesis that handedness is a factor initiating individual differences in preferred coping strategies among people working at managerial positions, The Edinburgh inventory for handedness assessment (Oldfield, 1971) and the preferred Stress Coping Strategies Questionnaire (adapted for Bulgarian population by Rusinova-Hristova and Karastoyanov (Rusinova-Hristova, Karastoyanov, 2000) 56 participants aged 32-59 years (25 men and 31 women), were studied. The results found significant handedness-related differences: left-handers tend to use significantly less often the problem-focused strategies “active coping” and “suppression of competing activities”, and more often the emotion-focused strategies “behavioral disengagement” and “mental disengagement”, compared to both right-handers and mixed handers; at the group level, mixed-handers more often used the emotion-focused strategy “denial”, with a statistically significant between-group difference with right-handers and a close to statistically significant difference with left-handers.

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