hardiness

The relevance of the study is due to the growth of both emotional and physical stress of students majoring in psychology. In this regard, it is important for intending psychologists to develop psychological resistance to the situations of frustration. The purpose of the research is to study the correlation between the types of coping strategies and reactions to frustration of students with diff erent levels of hardiness.

At experiencing of difficult vital situations a man often emerge on a surface setting of victim. Installation on behavior of a victim – the specific form of social installation in which basis infantilism, a dependant orientation, aspiration to passive, advantageous adaptation in the environment with use of not constructive strategy interfering and tightening overcoming of a difficult situation. Since the victim differs the special ingenuity, all practical work assumes reorientation of this creative mechanism on creative permission of problems of personality sphere.

The article presents the results of a study which conclusively prove a correlation between self-realization and the individual’s hardiness. It is shown that under certain conditions (in difficult life situations) hardiness as a property of the personality is a predictor of self-fulfillment of the subjects of activity. The article outlines modern trends in research of self-realization in the context of the system paradigm. It further identifies main individual and personal determinants of the manifestation of personal self-realization.