Hardiness: An Operationalization of Existential Courage

By S. Maddi. 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships (2015, positive): “Mental toughness is also described as similar to the concept of hardiness, a personality disposition that is a resistance resource 2 when confronting stress (e.g. Kobasa, 1979; Kobasa, Maddi, & Kahn, 1982; Maddi, 2004).”
Hardiness training facilitates performance in college (2009, background): “Although these later measures still correlate negatively with indices of negative affectivity, the magnitudes are lower, and many findings showing their construct validity as measures of existential courage are available (e.g., Maddi, 2002, 2004).”
Grit and Hardiness as Predictors of Performance Among West Point Cadets (2014, background): “Because hardiness involves how one responds to stressful circumstances (i.e., willingness to stay engaged, struggle to have influence on outcomes, and posture toward the need to change), it has been conceptualized as an expression of existential courage (Maddi, 2004).”
Mental toughness in sport: A review (2007, background): “…a threat, and as such, mitigate the potential stressfulness of events by viewing adjustment as stimulating Individually, the three dimensions of hardiness are important, but Maddi (2004) rejected any emphasis on one or other of these three as being more important To Maddi, it is the combination of…”