The Situation of a Pandemic as a Stress Test for the Resilience of an Individual: Problems and Prospects for Sociological Assessing Existential Modes in the Context of S. Muddy Method

Relevance. The problem of the resilience of the individual acquires particular relevance during a pandemic associated with the rapid spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, due to the fact that it affects all spheres of human vitality.
The purpose of the article was to achieve an understanding of which human resources are currently the most vulnerable, and which may not be able to withstand after a certain time, as well as to put forward an assumption about the most positive variant of the development of events for the vitality parameter.
The objectives of the study in connection with the goal was to appeal to the resource of vitality in a person. Therefore, the analysis of resilience was based on comprehending the results of the survey and conclusions about how exactly the components of resilience contribute to adaptability, the development of coping strategies that help people overcome the pandemic of fear and anxiety.
Methodology. We used S. Maddy's hardiness test (in the adaptation of D. A. Leontiev, E. I. Rasskazova, who, with the consent of S. Maddy, retaining the structure of the original test, introduced additional items). Resilience is an integral indicator and is calculated as the sum of three other indicators: involvement, control and risk acceptance.
Results. Analysis of the data of the study of the parameters of resilience allows us to conclude: the situation of a pandemic reduces the resilience of a person. The parameter of involvement of students participating in the research is significantly lower than the same parameter of students who do not face similar difficulties. The number of areas and spheres of activity that fascinated and interested a person decreased, this is evidence of a decrease in the level of pleasure from doing what has become less accessible.
Conclusions. Distance today can be viewed not as a limitation, but as an opportunity for existential experience, in a certain sense, transcending beyond the usual way, a horizon that opens the possibility of self-creativity and a more complete expression of one's individuality.

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