The Protective Value of Hardiness on Military Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Escolas, Sandra M; Pitts, Barbara L.; Safer, Martin A.; Bartone, Paul T.

doi:10.1037/h0094953

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“…The results from the study also add to existing knowledge of the relationship between hardiness and perceived stress (e.g. Andrew et al 2008;Escolas et al 2013;Paulik 2001). Having a hardy personality-high in control, commitment and challenge-seems to equip seafarers with the resources to cope well on board regardless of the duration of their deployment.…”

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Resilience and well-being amongst seafarers: cross-sectional study of crew across 51 ships

Doyle

MacLachlan

Fraser

et al. 2015

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Resilience and well-being amongst seafarers: cross-sectional study of crew across 51 ships

Doyle

MacLachlan

Fraser

et al. 2015

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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“…Hardiness scales have been used to study the stress process in a wide range of contexts since the late 1960s (Maddi, ). Hardiness is most commonly researched among workers in occupations inherently high in stressors, such as health care (e.g., Abdollahi, Talib, Yaacob, & Ismail, ; Judkins & Rind, ; Kareaga, Exeberria, & Smith, ), military (Escolas, Pitts, Safer, & Bartone, ; Pitts, Safer, Russell, & Castro‐Chapman, ; Skomorovsky & Sudom, ), and teaching (Lease, ; Otero‐López, Mariño, & Bolaño, ; Otero‐López, Bolaño, Mariño, & Pol, ). A quantitative meta‐analytic review of hardiness indicated that hardiness was consistently correlated with life satisfaction, job satisfaction, job performance, intentions to quit one's job, job burnout, psychological distress, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder (Eschleman et al, ).…”

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Organizational factors related to attracting job seekers higher in hardiness

Eschleman

Mast

Coppler

et al. 2019

Int J Selection Assessment

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Building an organization of workers who thrive in demanding environments begins with recruitment of workers with personality traits predictive of resilience. We integrate fit theories to determine how job advertisement information may attract job seekers higher in psychological hardiness (sense of control, feelings of commitment to many things in life, perceptions of challenge). Across two studies, we manipulated hypothetical job advertisements that were presented to current workers seeking new employment. Job seekers higher in hardiness were more attracted to working with hardy coworkers, less attracted to coping resources, and more attracted to high emotional labor demands compared to job seekers lower in hardiness. A discussion for how organizations may craft job advertisement content to improve their recruitment efforts is provided.

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“…Military units serving in international peacekeeping missions often operate under demanding and potentially traumatizing conditions, which, in turn, can lead to a number of mental health complaints among the deployed troops (e.g., Armistead-Jehle, Johnston, Wade & Ecklund, 2011;Rona, Jones, Sundin, Goodwin, Hull, Wessely & Fear, 2012). A large number of studies have shown that hardiness and cohesion are important resilience factors that are associated with mental health in a military context (e.g., Escolas, Pitts, Safer & Bartone, 2013;Jones, Seddon, Fear, McAllister, Wessely & Greenberg, 2012;King, King, Fairbank, Keane & Adams, 1998). In a recent metaanalysis, Eschleman, Bowling and Alarcon (2010) confirmed the view that hardiness is an important and unique stress-resiliency resource across a wide range of domains, also when controlling for the broad personality domains Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness and Conscientiousness within the framework of the Big Five.…”

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The combined influence of hardiness and cohesion on mental health in a military peacekeeping mission: A prospective study

Thomassen

Hystad

Johnsen

et al. 2015

Scandinavian J Psychology

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A large number of studies have shown that hardiness and cohesion are associated with mental health in a military context. However, most of them are presented without controlling for baseline mental health symptoms, which is their most significant source of error. The present study investigates the combined effect of hardiness and cohesion in a prospective design, controlling for baseline levels of symptoms among Norwegian personnel serving in a peacekeeping operation in Kosovo. Multivariate regression analyses were performed in which self‐reported mental health complaints were regressed on our explanatory variables. Our findings suggest that both cohesion and hardiness contributed to increased stress resiliency, as measured by a lower level of reported mental health complaints. Our baseline measure of mental health accounted for a larger proportion of the variance than our other predictors. A significant interaction between cohesion and hardiness suggested a combined effect, over and above the individual contributions of the predictors. For individuals who scored high on hardiness, cohesion levels did not influence levels of mental health complaints. Individuals who scored low on hardiness, on the other hand, reported lower levels of mental health complaints when cohesion levels were high.

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The Protective Value of Hardiness on Military Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

Cited by 66 publications

References 25 publications

Resilience and well-being amongst seafarers: cross-sectional study of crew across 51 ships

Resilience and well-being amongst seafarers: cross-sectional study of crew across 51 ships

Organizational factors related to attracting job seekers higher in hardiness

The combined influence of hardiness and cohesion on mental health in a military peacekeeping mission: A prospective study

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