Boyarkina S.I. Coping in a disease situation: a bibliometric analysis of scientific discourse. St. Petersburg sociology today, 2020, No. 13-14, pp. 132-152. DOI: 10.25990 ...

Abstract

The article presents the results of a study carried out using bibliometric analysis of publications metadata posted in the international scientific literature database Web of Science (WoS): Core Collection, devoted to the coping issues. The disciplinary distribution of the publications array testifies to the predominance of specialized medical and psychological scientific topics, a noticeable lag in the social sciences in studying problems of perception and behavior in difficult life situations, including the situation of disease. The analysis of terminological fields, carried out using the VOS Viewer program, made it possible to identify tendencies in the thematic structuring of scientific discourse, to confirm the assumption that there is a relationship between the massive spread of chronic diseases and the frequency of their discussion by the scientific community; to highlight the most urgent diseases requiring the mobilization of individual social and psychological resources and their psychological perception problems; identify appropriate coping resources and strategies.