Stress-Hardiness

Question 1

What are hardiness traits?

Answer 1

• Hardy people throw themselves into life
• Thrive in stressful situations
• Hardy people are resilient and welcome change as an opportunity rather than a threat

Question 2

What was a hardiness research study?

Answer 2

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