Individual Differences - Hardiness Personality

Question 1

What does hardy personality mean and who suggested it

Answer 1

Kobosa
Hardiness - describes someone who copes well in stressful situations

Question 2

What are the three aspects of the hardiness personality

Answer 2

Commitment - committed to things in life eg work, relationships. Putting 100% effort into whatever they do and don’t give up.

Challenge- see stressful/ difficult situations as challenges and an opportunity to overcome them and grow.

Control- feel like they’re in control of their lives and less likely to blame external factors for stressful situations. Internal LOC.

Question 3

Study on hardiness personality
Kobasa

Answer 3

800 male American
assessed stress using SRRS (a measure of life events)
-150 had high stress according to their SRRS scores.
-pp were asked to list the number of illness that they had in this time.
-Some reported high stress but had low illness and some had low stress but high illness.
They then completed a personality tests, which assessed control, commitment and challenge.
Findings
The individuals who had high-stress but low-illness group scored highly on all 3 of the hardiness characteristics
shows -hardiness personality helps you cope with stress.

Question 4

Evaluation of hardiness personality

Answer 4

✅real life application- in the military they’re screened for hardiness and if it’s low they go into hardiness training.

❌self report - could give socially desirable answeres