Psychological Hardiness and Its Relationship to Achievement Motivation among Players of Some Sporting Activities

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The impact of hardiness represents in the role of mediator between the individual's cognitive assessment of the stressed experiences and preparing and processing of coping strategies to reduce the amount of psychological stress experiences. Psychological hardiness also helps the individual to deal with stresses effectively, and that the individual who has the psychological hardiness uses the evaluation and coping strategies effectively. This indicates that the individual has a high level of psychological confidence. Thus, this individual estimates the stressed situation as less threating and then re-builds it into something more positive. (1)