Stress-Hardiness Flashcards

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What are hardiness traits?

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  • Hardy people throw themselves into life
  • Thrive in stressful situations
  • Hardy people are resilient and welcome change as an opportunity rather than a threat
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What was a hardiness research study?

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Kobasa (1979):

  • Used 670 aged 40-49 US business executives and assessed them using early version of SRRS to identify 3 years previous stress
  • Looked at illness records and illness
  • 150 had high stress-low illness scores
  • Proposed hardy personality encourages resilience as high stress-low illness individuals scores high on all 3 characteristics
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