Personal hardiness refers to the capability to plow through any kind of stress with great resilience. This ability was proposed by Kobasa in the late 1970’s and stems from an individual’s ability to remain committed (mentally and emotionally involved in any endeavor), have control, and view adversity as challenge (seeing constraining and restricting opportunities as […]
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Homogeneity
The degree to which a ‘being’ is same or consists of the same thing. There are various ways of understanding homogeneity in psychology; through cultural, trait-wise, statistical or research-based lens. Homogenous sampling: Gathering a group of research participants that share various similar traits. The extent to which different ethnic or demographic based groups share similar […]
In psychology, heredity pertains to the biological process by which parents transfer biological characteristics to their children. It remains pivotal in the development of particular physical attributes, temperament, intellectual abilities, and even predispositions to certain behaviors or mental health issues. Heredity is carried through genes, which are an array of DNA segments that provide the […]