Hardiness: A review and research agenda

Hardiness has consistently expanded across various research disciplines, maintaining significant scholarly interest since its inception. Research has continuously evolved the theoretical framework, assessment methods, and training programs of hardiness. However, a comprehensive literature review is...

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Published in:Personality and individual differences 2025-02, Vol.233, p.112882, Article 112882
Main Authors: Mund, Pallabi, Mishra, Manit
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bibliometric analysis
Challenge
Commitment
Connection
Control
Culture
Hardiness
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Summary:Hardiness has consistently expanded across various research disciplines, maintaining significant scholarly interest since its inception. Research has continuously evolved the theoretical framework, assessment methods, and training programs of hardiness. However, a comprehensive literature review is still lacking. This study offers a holistic retrospection of hardiness research, tracking its progress through bibliometric analysis. Analysing 690 publications from the Web of Science database (2002–2023), the study explores research trends using citation, co-citation, and bibliographic coupling techniques to uncover thematic and intellectual structures. Using VOSviewer for visualization and network analysis, the study identifies three foundational and ten thematic clusters. The findings highlight the extant landscape of hardiness research and helps outline future research directions, thereby expanding the horizons of the domain. •The study carries out bibliometric analysis of 690 articles on hardiness published during 2002–2023.•Publication trend has increased since 2018.•Key contributors to hardiness research are Bartone (921 citations) and Maddi (655 citations).•Personality and Individual Differences and Military Psychology are the predominant journals publishing research on hardiness.•The study identifies three foundational clusters, and ten thematic clusters within extant hardiness research.
ISSN:0191-8869
DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2024.112882