Study of the hardiness of Ukrainians in conditions of uncertainty and unpredictability of wartime
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2025
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Kaplunenko, Yaryna
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Background and Objective: At the crossroads of extreme uncertainty and threat, the issue of protecting oneself, actualising one’s resilience, and developing tools to counter exhaustion becomes urgent. Such tools include the hardiness of the individual as an antidote to the existential anxiety of today’s stormy challenges. Hardiness is a complex concept defining a person’s ability to withstand difficult situations and resist stress. It includes three main aspects: inclusion, control, and challenge (S.C. Kobasa, S. Maddi). Method: The report presents a study of the hardiness of Ukrainians during the war and an analysis of these indicators in the context of existential factors that can determine it, which include dialogical relations with the four fundamental dimensions of existence: relations with the world, relations with life, relations with oneself, and relations with meaning (concept of 4 fundamental existential motivations (M. Heidegger, A. Laengle), as well as the so-called anthropological characteristics of a person, namely, freedom, responsibility, the ability to self-distance and self-transcendence, the ability to appreciate one’s own life, meaning and values (V. Frankl, A. Laengle). Results: The results are obtained based on the following methods: Existence scale (Lengle, Orgler), Test of fundamental motivations -TEM (Lengle et al.); Professional resilience questionnaire (Kokun), The Hardiness Scale-21 (Merino-Tejedor et al.), The Resistant Personality Questionnaire-21 (Calvo & García). Conclusions: Based on the received data, the ways, and methods of optimising the vitality of the individual have been determined, and practical recommendations have been developed and presented to update the fundamental factors of hardiness in the context of war and post-war times.
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hardiness, resilience, wartime, existential anxiety, conference materials
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Kaplunenko Ya. Study of the hardiness of Ukrainians in conditions of uncertainty and unpredictability of wartime / Yaryna Kaplunenko // European Journal of Psychotraumatology. - 2025. - Vol. 16, supplement 1 : Abstract book ESTSS conference 2025, Tbilisi. - Article 2498213 : Posters, meeting abstract 156.