A Comparative Analysis of the Parameters of "Hardiness" and "Resilience"

Elena Ivanovna Nikolaeva,Oksana Evgen'Evna Elnikova

doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s4p219

Abstract

The article presents a psychophysiological analysis of the resilience and hardiness of the adult tested persons (68 people). The tested persons were divided into three groups in accordance with the objective health indicators. The resilience of adults with chronic diseases is associated with the ability to predict the pattern of the signal input in a complex sensorimotor response. The hardiness is not associated with the psychophysiological characteristics. However, it is correlated with the strategies of problem solving and coping focused on emotions, as well as with the self-assessment of health. The tested persons with chronic diseases, as opposed to the tested persons without chronic diseases, better predicted the pattern of the sensory input of signals in a complex sensorimotor response, which is estimated by the authors as a manifestation of the resilience. It is concluded that the resilience and hardiness not only have a different result for a person after overcoming a difficult situation, but also possess different mechanisms of occurrence. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n5s4p219

Highlights

The complexity of describing the quality of human life is primarily associated with the objective difficulties in selecting the adequate methods of assessment (Ware and Sherbourne, 1992)
In accordance with the results obtained, the tested persons were divided into three groups: the first group included the healthy subjects; the second group included the subjects that for the first time experienced or felt certain symptoms of a disease that proved to be temporary, and in the medical records, there were no entries of any chronic disease (23 people); the third group included subjects with chronic diseases, the occurrence of which was committed by physicians to the medical records (30 people)
We understand that this division of subjects is relative and that there are diseases that for a certain period can proceed without symptoms, as well as that there are evidences of spontaneous curing of chronic diseases

Summary

Introduction

The complexity of describing the quality of human life is primarily associated with the objective difficulties in selecting the adequate methods of assessment (Ware and Sherbourne, 1992). The evolutionary mechanism, formed back in the days when people actively fought for survival within the changing environment, does not allow them to experience durably the state of happiness or well-being. That is why any welfare-related matter is of extremely acute dependence on the immediate attitudes rather than on the durable states. A person faces difficult circumstances, which can be overcome with different results. For this purpose, the current literature provides two fundamentally different concepts—resilience and hardiness

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