THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE "VIABILITY" CONCEPT IN RUSSIAN AND FOREIGN PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCh
The article focuses on the notion of viability and compares how the concept is defined in russian and foreign research sources. Russian academics tend to consider an “ability” as an individual feature, and do not rely on it when addressing the “viability” issue. Western psychology primarily focuses on an individual’s social activity. Therefore, russian psychological science defines “viability” primarily as a psychological resource of an individual. Foreign psychological research, on the contrary, considers “viability” to be, on the one hand, an individual’s ability to construct the model of one’s lifestyle in accordance with their knowledge, skills, and abilities, and on the other, to be one’s resources which an individual could use to fulfil this lifestyle concept.