Psychological Hardiness Predicts Success in US Army Special Forces Candidates

By Paul T. Bartone, R. R. Roland, J. Picano, T. Williams. 2008

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Big five personality factors, hardiness, and social judgment as predictors of leader performance (2009, methodology): “It would be best in futures studies such as this to assess hardiness at multiple time points, especially since there now exists a short, valid and reliable tool for measuring hardiness (Bartone, 2007; Bartone et al., 2008).”
The grit effect: predicting retention in the military, the workplace, school and marriage (2013, background): “Even with this stringent entrance requirement, approximately half of ARSOF candidates voluntarily withdraw before the end of the 24-day selection course (Bartone et al., 2008).”
Relations of resilience and hardiness with sport achievement and mental health in a sample of athletes (2010, background): “Sense of control help athletes believe they can control or influence what happens (Bartone et al., 2008) and interpret experience as something, over which they can exert control (Johnsen et al., 2009) and challenge not only present opportunity to learn and grow during demanding situations, but…”