Subjective adaptation of the disabled as a psychological phenomenon

The purpose of this study is to describe the psychological phenomenon of subjective adaptation of disabled people. The sample group consisted of 12 Russian-speaking young disabled persons who participate in a psychological club "Reflection", that was established within activity of Center of Disabled Students Support in Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics. There were 9 persons with locomotor disorders and 3 persons with intellectual disorders. We used the phenomenological analysis of their experience dynamics to describe the subjective adaptation phenomenon. Phenomenological analysis revealed the essential notes and dynamic structure of the phenomenon. Also, the results demonstrated that the subjective adaptation better occurs among disabled persons without intellectual disorders and is closely connected with the narrative grammar education of the disabled. The subjective adaptation described in the study is a multi-dimensional phenomenon. It occurs in experience narrative dimensions. On the other hand, the subjective adaptation presented in this study, is a new object of practical psychological work with disabled people. The subjective adaptation phenomenon can be an object for further research in the field of disabled people inner and social integration, it will also help to clarify the process of person development and understanding the cases of self-organization of the experience structural components of a disabled person. In any case, whether a disabled person participated more or less consciously in his life or let the things drift, his life would assume a kind of structure. It includes social relationships, reasons, representations, life energy distribution, space and time arrangement of own existence, etc. In both cases, it can be successful or unsuccessful: as casual (i.e. consciously undefined) course of life determination might be successful and productive or aggravated by problems, as consciously shaped, from one or another level of reflection, fate might be unhappy and complicated or developed with very constructive method. In the second case, success is determined by Tightness of presuppositions and correctness of corresponding influences. As a result, the phenomenon of subjective adaptation appears. The life of a disabled person might be successful, there are subjective factors that determinate its effectiveness, and they might be revealed and analyzed. They might be correctly implemented for a happy course of life development. Though, to test this hypothesis was not easy, it was quite possible.

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