The personality construct of hardiness, III: Relationships with repression, innovativeness, authoritarianism, and performance.
Previous research has established hardiness as a dispositional factor in preserving and enhancing performance and health despite stressful circumstances. The present four studies continue this construct-validational process by (a) introducing a shortened version of the hardiness measure and (b) testing hypotheses concerning the relationship between hardiness and repressive coping, right-wing authoritarianism, innovative behavior, and billable hours (a measure of consulting effectiveness). Results of these studies suggest the adequate reliability and validity of the Personal Views Survey III-R, which is the shortened, 18-item measure of hardiness. Further, results support the hypothesis that the relationship of hardiness is negative with repressive coping and right-wing authoritarianism and positive with innovative behavior and billable hours. Hardiness also appears unrelated to socially desirable responding.
Maddi
Salvatore R
SR
Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine 92697-7085, USA. srmaddi@uci.edu
Harvey
Richard H
RH
Khoshaba
Deborah M
DM
Lu
John L
JL
Persico
Michele
M
Brow
Marnie
M
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001318:Authoritarianism; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires