Hardiness is a personal resource that can potentially diminish negative effects of life stress. To increase understanding of the role that it can have on the health protection and promotion of bereaved parents following a perinatal loss, this article uses J. Wilson's (1969) method to present a concept analysis of hardiness. This analysis provides not only a fresh perspective for understanding t...

The recent emphasis on positive psychology is welcome, and has spurred much relevant research. But, there are still many unresolved conceptual and research issues, as more variables are being proposed as relevant. As part of this process, the present paper proposes hardiness as an addition to positive psychology. Hardiness is a combination of attitudes that provides the courage and motivation t...

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1716 Abstract: Genetic variation in drought hardiness traits and their genetic correlations with growth potential and recovery traits were investigated in 39 full-sib families of coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) from southwestern British Columbia. Seedlings of these families were grown in raised nursery beds and subjected to three moisture regimes each i...

A decrease of protein, RNAs, and starch, and an increase of sugar were observed in 3-day water-stressed red osier dogwood plants (Cornus stolonifera Michx.) when the frost hardiness increased from -3 to -6 C. As the frost hardiness increased to -11 C after 7 days of treatment, the starch continuously decreased, however, the proteins and RNAs increased with a continuous increase of sugar. Furthe...

Direct effects and buffering models were tested in relation to cognitive hardiness and coping for general health and psychological functioning. Mature age university students (N=187) completed measures assessing life event stress and traumatic life experiences (independent variables) cognitive hardiness and coping style (moderator variables), and general health, somatization, anxiety and depres...

nursing is considered as a high level of risk profession and burnout. past research on nurses has identified a significant negative relation of nurses’ job burnout with their hardiness and emotional intelligence. the present research aimed to explore the job burnouts among nurses, and to examine the relationship between nurses’ burnout with predictor variables such as emotional intelligence, sp...

background providing the mental health of medical students has an important role in mental health of society. the aim of this research was investigating the relationship between the mental health and hardiness in medical students and comparing these variables in first and last semester medical students. material and methods the present research was correlation and matching method on first and l...

Received for publication 21 Apr. 1999. Accepted for publication 5 May 1999. This work was supported by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, West Virginia Univ.–Agricultural Experiment Station, and the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture–National Research Initiative grant No. 9401825. West Virginia Univ. Agricultural Experiment Station Publication No. 2679. The cost of publishing t...