الصلابة النفسية كمتغير داعم في مواجهة الضغوط مراجعة نظرية

The exposure to hard and stressful events is inevitable, but all people don’t respond to it with the same way. Someone is psychologically or physically ill, someone faces with humor, another one uses positive or negative methods of confrontation and other differences in reactions that refers to individual’s social and psychological resources. This theoretical research aims to highlight the role of psychological hardiness as supporting psychological resource in helping individuals and vaccinating them against stress that lead to disorders and affect the behavior and performance of persons. All of that pursuant to the general aim of psychology that is studying human in all cases and help him to live in a more compatible way with his life, in addition to studying stress from different approach that is searching for stress- resistant and mitigating factors. The present paper reviews some theoretical explanations for stress beside the theoretical idea that emerged psychological hardiness theory with reference to those studies that revealed the relationship between hardiness and stress.
The review concluded that most studies are based on an initial assumption of an inverse relation between stress and hardiness in addition to relation between headiness and some positive confrontation methods. Nevertheless, we still need a lot of researches that support this assumption on various samples of Arab environments, especially since most Arab studies were on students, as well as the need for examination of the nature of hardiness according to various demographic variables.
Key words: psychological hardiness, stress.