Mental toughness: Promising new paradigms for the workplace

Mental Toughness 1 Running Head: Mental Toughness The Concept of Mental Toughness: Tests of Dimensionality, Nomological Network and Traitness

1 Objectives: Mental toughness has received increased scholarly attention in recent years, yet 2 conceptual issues related to its (i) dimensionality, (ii) nomological network, and (iii) traitness 3 remain unresolved. The series of studies reported in this paper were designed to examine 4 these three substantive issues across several achievement contexts including sport, education, 5 military an...

Computational Paradigms for Mental Health

Discovering Mental Toughness: A Qualitative Study of Mental Toughness in Elite Athletes [R]

What is mental toughness? This research draws on the experience of elite athletes and coaches to unearth a conceptualisation and definition of mental toughness. The interviews of 33 elite athletes and coaches (including 25 current or former elite athletes, of whom 15 had achieved an Olympic Gold Medal or World Champion status) were transcribed verbatim and analysed qualitatively to reveal under...

A new brittleness index for estimation of rock fracture toughness

Assessment of the correlation between rock brittleness and rock fracture toughness has been the subject of extensive research works in the recent years. Unfortunately, the brittleness measurement methods have not yet been standardized, and rock fracture toughness cannot be estimated satisfactorily by the proposed indices. In the present study, statistical analyses are performed on some data col...

Paradigms and safety requirements for a new generation of workplace equipment.

A workplace in the manufacturing industry consists of not only stationary equipment (e.g., machining centres, fixed robots) but also mobile equipment (e.g., automated guided vehicles, mobile robots), with both kinds cooperating directly with workers. Workplace equipment should not only be safe, it should also not generate fear or anxiety; still better if it should inspire calm and confidence. I...