INTERCONNECTION OF ECOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND HARDINESS
This article is devoted to the problem of human interaction with the environment, which is relevant for the entire world community. A significant contribution to the solution of this problem was made by the creation of a Sustainable Development Strategy, which is based on the postulate of equality between nature and man, moderate use of natural resources, taking into account future life on Earth. This Strategy is aimed at forming an ecocentric type of ecological consciousness and at forming a psychologically stable personality for effective adaptation to situations of uncertainty, stress and global changes. We made an attempt to systematize the main research areas of an individual’s environmental consciousness in the context of a Sustainable Development Strategy, and also conducted an empirical study of the relationship between resilience and an individual’s environmental consciousness. The study involved 506 people (46.2% men, 53.8% women) aged 18 to 72 years. The obtained data confirmed our assumption about the relationship of human resilience and its factors with the components of the cognitive component of environmental consciousness (the impact of nature on humans and the impact of humans on nature). Objective : to systematize the main research directions of the individual’s ecological consciousness in the context of the Sustainable Development Strategy. Empirically identify the relationship between types of environmental awareness and components of resilience. Methods: for statistical processing of the obtained data, the program “SPSS for Windows ver. 23.0” was used. To test the main hypothesis, correlations were analyzed using the Spearman criterion. Results: In our study, we suggested that such a psychological ability of a person as resilience can meet the requirements for psychological stability of a person within the framework of the Sustainable Strategy, and we also suggested that it is resilience that is interrelated with environmental consciousness. Our data significantly confirmed the hypothesis on the relationship of resilience and factors that determine the cognitive component of environmental consciousness (impacts of nature on humans and human impact on nature), which opens to us prospects of further research of the psychological peculiarities of the personality and types of ecological consciousness and studying the nature of their influence on each other. Conclusions: The results obtained in the empirical study expand the possibility for an individual to acquire practical skills for personal adaptation in a rapidly changing environment. Resilience can have an indirect impact on increasing the level of environmental awareness through training, which is aimed at achieving a deeper understanding of stressful situations, ways to cope with them and finding ways to solve problems actively not only in everyday situations, but in situations of interaction with the environment, in conditions of increased anthropogenic load.