Hardiness (psychological)

Hardiness (English for, resistance ') refers to a personality factor that people can help to protect against disease in spite of great stress and critical life events. It is the individual dealing with stressors in the foreground. The term was introduced in 1979 by Suzanne C. Kobasa.

Components

• Commitment ( commitment and commitment ): In order for the effort a person is meant herself with everything she does or what she meets to identify and engage it. Commitment is the opposite of passivity and avoidance behavior, meaning curiosity for life and a high motivation to accomplish something and realize.

• Control ( Control): This is the opposite of helplessness is meant. Individuals with high control believe that they can influence the course of events of their experience. Experience events not as something strange, they Overwhelming, because they see that they are available various options of response and decision.

• Challenge ( challenge ) finally believes that changes are not perceived as a threat but as a positive opportunity. Change and transformation are for those people to life, and they see it more as an opportunity for new experiences and incentive to further growth as a threat to its security and stability. Difficulties are thereby used as an opportunity to learn from it.

Criticism

Following the terminology Hardiness means the property of a person to deal with stressful situations objectively and problem- oriented, while feelings while remaining unnoticed. Critics say this means a lack of processing of the overall situation. It was true that in the situation of acute stress, the freedom of action be maintained (see Acute stress reaction), but this is not relieved it of the need for a post previously suppressed feelings.

The underlying concept is also because of its width and because of difficulties that arise in measuring controversial.

Let (, sense of coherence in relation to the salutogenesis ) pointed out the conceptual overlaps with constructs of resilience or sense of coherence.