PSYC 2508 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Deductive Reasoning, Postmodernity, Developmental Lines
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Lecture 16: the personality construct of hardiness, iv. Most of the managers were severely disrupted, disoriented, and demoralized. But some survived (and thrived) in the downsizing of half of their fellow employees. Hardiness accounted for the resiliency under the stressful situation. Subsequent research has shown that hardiness maintains and enhances health under stressful circumstances. Commitment: those who are strong in the commitment attitude get involved rather than withdraw, perceiving this as the best way to turn the stressful experience into something that seems noteworthy. Control: those strong in the control attitude believe that through effort, they can more often than not influence what is going on around them rather than perceiving themselves as powerless in the fact of circumstances. Measures the big 5: neuroticism (-) Negatively correlated to scale to measure hardiness: extraversion (+ positively correlated with hardiness, agreeableness (+, openness (+, conscientiousness (+)
