Abstract:
The paper describes the experiment as one of the effective tools for diagnosing the degree of resilience of different social groups under stress. Definitions of main terms and concepts are provided: 1) a social group is defined as people who share a common
social characteristic and perform a socially necessary function in the overall structure of the social division of activities; 2) a state of stress is the need to resolve and adapt to new circumstances; 3) resistance is a characteristic of the common qualities of each individual, which must become a resource for overcoming life’s problems, adapting to adverse changes, effective functioning in society, the foundation for dreams and their successful implementation; 4) resilience is a complex integral property of a person, linked to a system of elements represented by a complex of intellectual, cognitive, emotional
and personal qualities, which enable the individual to carry significant mental, physical, voluntary and emotional exertions, maintaining effective functioning in a stressful situation.
The experiment from the point of view of formal sciences is considered: experimental physics considers a complex of studies on physical phenomena and the world, experimental mathematics involves the use of substitution, displacement,
propulsion, from the opposite, to test, confirmation of old and new facts / theorems using the method of evidence with modern technology; as well as from the position of experimental psychology, where the experiment dominates the study of the object in the context of a planned and specially created reality shift to obtain results that can be generalized and used to test the hypothesis. It is clear that an association experiment with a dominant subtypes of free associative experiment can be used to diagnose the degree of resilience of different social groups under stress.
