The word "sthenicity" comes from the Greek "stenos", which means "strength". Sthenicity is a psychological characteristic that is given to a person if he is capable of long-term hard work, and if he is not distracted by extraneous noise and other interference, and even loss of sleep.
Sthenic and asthenic personality types
In psychology, sthenic and asthenic personality types are distinguished. The first of them has such qualities as mood stability, purposefulness, confidence, activity, cheerfulness, stress resistance. The asthenic personality type (the Greek word "strength" through the prefix turns into "powerlessness", "weakness") is characterized, on the contrary, by increased fatigue, sensitivity, possibly touchiness resulting from mood swings, as well as insomnia or other sleep disorders. Nevertheless, for the asthenic type of personality, a sthenic scenario of behavior is not excluded. In this case, they say that the person experiences sthenicemotions.
Sthenic and asthenic emotions
Consequently, sthenicity is also an emotional characteristic. Like personality types, sthenic and asthenic emotions are distinguished in psychology. Emotions, called sthenic, are emotions that contribute to the appearance in a person of the characteristics characteristic of the sthenic type of personality. What emotions can awaken efficiency, make you feel vivacity, strength, a surge of energy? These are powerful positive and even negative emotions: joy, love, as well as hatred, envy, etc.
Accordingly, emotions that are called asthenic in psychology lead to the fact that a person feels tired, depressed, unable to perform his usual work.
Stenism in psychology is interesting because the same emotions can take on a different character depending on the character and temperament of a person. For example, grief can induce one person to violent activity, while drawing another into a state of apathy and indifference.
