THE SPECIAL ASPECTS OF HARDINESS AMONG PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ANTICIPATED INDIVIDUAL CHOICE SATISFACTION

Abstract

The article deals with main problems of hardiness and anticipation of individual’s choice satisfaction. Anticipation is understood as individual’s ability to predict their future consequences of choices. In psychology, hardiness is analyzed as a system of persons’ representations about themselves, the environment and the relationship with the environment. Hardiness consists of three components: engagement, control and risk-taking. The subject of the article is the special aspects of hardiness among people with different levels of anticipated individual choice satisfaction. The main goals are: analyze different approaches of choice investigation; learn more about such terms as ’hardiness’ and ’anticipation’; research main distinctions in groups with different anticipation and satisfaction with the choice. There has been used the activity approach to explore personality choice in the research.

There were identified four groups of respondents with different anticipation of choice satisfaction: respondents with good anticipation and expectations of low results; persons with low anticipation and expectations of the high level of satisfaction; respondents who received greater satisfaction than expected; maximalists who expect a very high satisfaction, but as a result they were very unhappy with the choice. It is shown that significant differences in groups of subjects with different anticipation of choice satisfaction are in such components as «engagement» and «risk-taking».