title: Development and validation of the Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  One of the most traditional approaches to the positive study of personality has been the research on Hardiness or Hardy Personality. However, studies about this construct have systematically suffered from a lack of sufficient psychometric guarantees of the measures.
  
  
  METHODS
  This paper presents the Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire (OHQ), the result of a research line on the subject and its measurement with a total sample of 1,647 participants.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Four studies show the results of exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), consistency, temporal reliability and construct validity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Results indicate that the OHQ has satisfactory psychometric characteristics and can be used in the study of Occupational Health and in the area of Positive Personality.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
authors.forename: Bernardo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Moreno-Jiménez
authors.forename: Alfredo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rodríguez-Muñoz
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Garrosa Hernández
authors.forename: Luis Manuel
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Blanco
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D061388:Firefighters / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D010465:Perception; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D011174:Portugal; D011590:Psychology, Industrial; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D013030:Spain; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult