The article analyzes the results of study hardiness and its relationships with personal resources. Personal resources, as intrapersonal qualities a person, contribute to smoothing out contradictions between individual living environment, overcoming adverse external circumstances help transformation value-meaning sphere individual, which sets vector direction, basis for self-realization. A separ...

This study was conducted to investigate the psychological hardiness levels of individual and team sportsmen. 396 (166 Individualand 230 Team) athletes voluntarily participated in from different sports branches. There search consists 3 sub-dimensions; self-dedication (7 questions) control questions), 21 questions challenge developed by there searcher Işık (2016). Psychological Hardiness scale Cr...

Studies have shown that psychological hardiness is an important stress resilience resource for individuals. The 15-items Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS-15) is a short, reliable and valid self-report instrument to measure hardiness that is not available in Italian. The present study was undertaken to create an Italian version of the DRS-15, and evaluate its psychometric properties and valid...

BACKGROUND This exploratory study investigated development of a model hardiness training program to determine whether stress could be reduced and hardiness could be increased and sustained among nurse managers. METHOD Thirteen nurse managers at an urban hospital completed pretests for hardiness levels and underwent initial hardiness training for 2.5 days. Posttests were completed after initia...

Although working with cancer patients is considered stressful, palliative care staff experience similar levels of psychological distress and lower levels of burnout than staff working in other specialties. There are few empirical studies in palliative care to explain this. Since working in a stressful job does not inevitably lead to psychological distress, the antecedent factors that promote re...

Hardiness has been proposed as a stress-resistance resource in maintaining health. This construct has been shown to act in conjunction with the Type A behavior pattern in affecting illness. In this study, we examined this relation in women (N = 82) with the use of the Structured Interview and the Jenkins Activity Survey to assess Type A behavior. As expected, there was a strong stress-illness a...

Competition among companies made the majority of employees faced high demand on their job and achievement. Hence, it eventually stimulated occurrence burnout more frequently. This study aims to dexplore correlation work stress hardiness with burnout. Using three psychological measurement tools, namely The Burnout Scale, Work Stress Hardiness this quantitative research measured 91 in Surabaya. r...

Moderate water stress increases frost hardiness in many woody plants but little attention has been given to changes in hardiness after recovery from water stress. Tests were carried out to examine how much water stress-induced frost hardiness remained when plants were rewatered under different day length regimes. Red osier dogwood plants (Cornus stolonifera Michx.) were water-stressed at normal...