Gender identity in the structure of students’ stress tolerance
The article is devoted to the study of the influence of gender identity of a person on the process of self-regulation, stress tolerance. It gives scientific definitions of the concepts "gender identity", "stress tolerance", "type of higher nervous activity" and discloses their content. The authors of the article make an attempt to reveal the relationship between the level of stress tolerance, the type of higher nervous activity and temperament, to give the classification of the types of higher nervous activity, and to identify the peculiarities of the influence of gender identity and the type of higher nervous activity on students’ stress tolerance. The article describes the distinctive features of students of different gender identities and types of higher nervous activity and determines the types of gender identity of students of different fields of training and the peculiarities of their influence on stress tolerance. The authors point out that respondents with the masculine type of gender identity predominate in the group of the area of study "Psychology", respondents with the feminine type of gender identity predominate in the group of the areas of study "Pedagogical education" and "Applied mathematics and computer science". The type of gender identity affects stress tolerance: the masculine and androgynous types of gender identity are more stress tolerant than the feminine one.