The Story of Hardiness: Twenty Years of Theorizing, Research, and Practice

Since 1979, the development of the hardiness approach to enhancing performance and health has been facilitated by continual cross-fertilization between theorizing, research, and practice. At first, hardiness emerged from individual differences research on stress reactions as the attitudes of commitm...

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Published in:Consulting psychology journal 2002, Vol.54 (3), p.173-185
Main Author: Maddi, Salvatore R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Human
Individual Differences
Organizational Change
Practice
Resilience (Psychological)
Social Interaction
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Summary:Since 1979, the development of the hardiness approach to enhancing performance and health has been facilitated by continual cross-fertilization between theorizing, research, and practice. At first, hardiness emerged from individual differences research on stress reactions as the attitudes of commitment, control, and challenge. Since then, extensive theorizing and practice, combined with considerable additional research, has led to the supplementation of hardy attitudes with hardy skills concerning coping, social interaction, and self-care. Also, the mechanisms whereby hardy attitudes and skills enhance performance and health are better understood. The hardiness approach has also expanded from the individual to the organizational level. All these developments form an example of the value of combining theorizing, research, and practice.
ISSN:1065-9293
1939-0149
DOI:10.1037/1061-4087.54.3.173