Stress-Hardiness Flashcards
1
Q
What are hardiness traits?
A
- Hardy people throw themselves into life
- Thrive in stressful situations
- Hardy people are resilient and welcome change as an opportunity rather than a threat
2
Q
What was a hardiness research study?
A
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