Courage to Be. Hardiness and Faith

Krichevec A.N.
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, Department of Methodology of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov, Moscow, Russia
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4064-3858
e-mail: ankrich@mail.ru

Solodushkina M.V.
Teacher of the Department of General and Applied Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Orthodox Institute Of St. John The Theologian Of The Russian Orthodox University
e-mail: s-tg@mail.ru

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The article presents a comparison between hardiness (the psychological construct by S. Maddi and D.A. Leontiev), the term "courage to be" and the defined conception of faith (by P. Tillich). It is shown, that Hardiness (by S. Maddi), despite author's opinion, appears to be not an operationalization of Tillich's "courage to be", but is a development of one of its aspects. Differences between the interpretation of the term in English and Russian variants of its operationalization are also discussed.

Keywords: challenge, hardiness, courage to be, existential anxiety

Column: Psychology of faith

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/cpp.2014220505

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Krichevec A.N., Solodushkina M.V. Courage to Be. Hardiness and Faith [Elektronnyi resurs]. Konsul'tativnaya psikhologiya i psikhoterapiya = Counseling Psychology and Psychotherapy, 2014. Vol. 22, no. 5, pp. 103–117. doi:10.17759/cpp.2014220505. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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