Hardiness

This article presents results of an empirical study intended to analyze coping strategies of people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction with different levels of hardiness. First theoretical approaches to hardiness and its components: commitment, control, challenge, have been analyzed. The study was conducted in a rehab center for people suffering from drug and (or) alcohol addiction. The study involved 37 people suffering from drug and (or) alcohol addiction – 27 men and 10 women aged 16 to 47 years old. All the people were in remission lasting from several days to several years.

The article show the analysis of the concept of self-activation of the personality with disabilities (HIA), and show results of research the self-activation’s factors of the students with HIA. It was clarified, the self-activation of the personality means psychological activation, containing a perception, an appraisal, an analysis to external signals (environmental conditions, examples of important people), containing their internal processing to adopt and accept the most of valuable and meaningful for oneself.

A group of schoolchildren (N = 107) with different levels of hardiness use strategies to cope with stress in different ways. Group of victims of the destructive orientation characteristic coping strategies, they avoid action, they use play or social role of the victim. For victimization of the group and the group with a medium level of hardiness of the dominant strategy is avoiding. Based on the identified features need to be organized psychological work with all groups of students.