Gender specification of student’s frusrtation tolerance

Abstract

The article highlights the issue of individual’s psychological resistance. It clarifies the concept “psychological resistance” as individual’s ability to analyze, to define critical stress situation aiming to modify its influence and to choose the way of overcoming. The article outlines prognostic criteria of psychological resistance that is frustration tolerance. It is interpreted as individual’s ability to overcome life difficulties without losing psychological adaptation, in the bases of which there is the ability to judge the situation adequately and to predict the solution. The article shows the comparison of frustration tolerance degrees and student’s gender concept types. It’s proved that medium and high degree of frustration tolerance is typical for androgynous type of gender identity individuals.