A behavioural genetic study of mental toughness and personality

By Vanessa A. Horsburgh, J. Schermer, L. Veselka, P. Vernon. 2009

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Mental toughness and athletes' use of psychological strategies (2010, background): “Horsburgh et al. (2009) evaluated mental toughness in 219 pairs of adult monozygotic and dizygotic twins and found evidence that individual differences in mental toughness were largely attributable to genetic and non-shared environmental factors.”
Mental toughness in sport: Achievement level, gender, age, experience, and sport type differences (2009, background): “Although more research is required to assess this (e.g., Crust, 2008), Horsburgh et al. (2009) have suggested that MT appears to have a strong genetic component.”
Developing Mental Toughness: From Research to Practice (2011, background): “One recent behavioral–genetic study of mental toughness ( Horsburgh, Schermer, Veselka, & Vernon, 2009 ) had twins complete a mental-toughness questionnaire and found that like most other personality traits, mental toughness had a strong genetic component, but was also influenced by environmental fa”
Mental toughness in education: exploring relationships with attainment, attendance, behaviour and peer relationships (2015, unknown): “Kobasa, 1979; Kobasa, Maddi, & Kahn, 1982; Maddi, 2004). According to Kobassa (1979), hardiness consists of three main components; control, referring to the ability to feel and act as if in control of various life situations, commitment, referring to the tendency to involve rather than distance ones”