Individual psychological singularities of persons with disabling diseases

Abstract

This article deals with the study of individual psychological features of men and women in the difficult circumstances of disability. The individual psychological characteristics are understood as the parameters of the meaningfulness of life, pseudocompensations, and personal properties. This study has managed to detect the gender dependence of the studied parameters' relationships. The observed specificity of the relationships' structural organization is the criterion of adaptation to the difficult circumstances. The differences between men and women were identified in quantitative values, which are the markers of adaptation of disabled persons to difficult circumstances. These features must be taken into account by the service of medical and social examination, by rehabilitation specialists at developing individual rehabilitation programs for disabled people.