Strategies of Adaptation to Different Types of Risks

The risks of everyday life differ both from acute risks that harshly intrude into the usual way of life, and from risks, let’s say, projected, potential. The starting point in the article is that strategies, methods, and resources that are activated to adapt to different types of risk have differences. The author exposes the empirical testing of the idea that in addition to the subjective significance of damage, the choice of strategies for adaptation to various types of risk can be influenced by certain components of the system of life orientation of the individual. The empirical base of the analysis consists of data from representative surveys of the population of three territorial communities. The results of a comparative analysis of the components of the orientation system in social reality and the type of rationality of representatives of the three strategies of adaptation (“observers”, “fighters”, “runaways”) to everyday, potential, actual (acute) risks are summarized. The General conclusion from the analysis of empirical data is that in the presence of “random” differences, stable, statistically reliable values of a number of factors are certainly observed, which can be unambiguously interpreted as determinants of the choice of strategy for adaptation to a particular type of risk. This analysis serves as a justification for the author’s concept of life orientation