Abstract

 The article describes the psychological study determining the factors that support fundamental assumptions of students with disabilities. We have determined correlations between psychological hardiness of students with disabilities and their system of fundamental assumptions; beliefs in the benevolence of the surrounding world and people, in the meaningfulness of some events, in a chance to build successfully one’s own life and in one’s own luck have a significant influence on psychological hardiness. The predictors of psychological hardiness of students with disabilities are: positive interactions with the outside world; self-acceptance as a conscious acceptance of various aspects of one’s own personality; personal autonomy, which allows an individual to independently determine their own behaviour, assess adequately their capabilities and resist external influences.
Highlights
Everyone in their life faces challenges, experiences some difficult moments, crises and overcomes them in different ways
This means that students with disabilities mostly had positive attitudes towards the world around them, believed that the world was more good than evil, and were convinced that the benevolence of the world would allow them to find their place in it. 2
The fundamental assumption of the benevolence of the world, which means a positive, optimistic attitude to the world, determines the need to learn about it, openness to new experiences, the ability to establish close relationships with others;
Summary
Everyone in their life faces challenges, experiences some difficult moments, crises and overcomes them in different ways. Some people, overcoming crisis situations, become more stout-hearted, wiser, they integrate an acquired experience into their own cognitive structures, analyze and use it; other people become disappointed in their own strength, they take the role of a victim, lose the purpose and meaning of life. This is especially true for people with chronic somatic diseases and disabilities, who face challenges every day. The performed studies indicated that psychological hardiness played the key role in successful coping with daily problematic, stressful situations appeared during learning or work, because developed psychological hardiness helped overcome such situations, by actualizing personal capabilities important in adverse developmental conditions (Maddi et al, 2010)
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