Kozhanova M. Psychological peculiarities of the cognitive dissonance phenomenon in the professional activity of doctors.

The dissertation focuses on the notion of cognitive dissonance phenomenon, its influence and consequences in the doctors' professional activity. It is stated that cognitive dissonance of the doctors functions as a complicated system ambivalent by its own nature, that is - it may be experienced not only as a self-diagnostics of the system with certain parameters of development and existence of preparedness for it, but also as a marking scale of the destruction system, which loses its unity due to the influence of the factors blocking the opportunity of self-realization and self-development. Thus it functions as a special mechanism of agreement, a balanced motivating and assessment sphere of the specialists. The paper identified the interdependence between the usage of coping-strategies and the formation of "successful" and "unsuccessful" patterns of a specialist's conduct. The latter identification proved to have positive consequences and negative ones. The thesis draws attention to the coping-strategies that have a great impact on the process of experiencing stress by the doctors not depending on their job. However non-adaptive coping-strategies cause professional stress, adaptive - encourage stress-proof model of behaviour of the examined group of doctors.