坚韧性人格研究综述

坚韧性是一丛能够保护个体免于应激伤害的人格特质,包括承诺、控制和挑战三部分内容。在大量研究的基础上,Maddi提出了坚韧性的理论模型,用以解释坚韧性与健康之间的关系。在许多用于坚韧性测量的问卷中,使用最为广泛的是健康相关坚韧性量表。最后,文章对坚韧性研究的现状进行了简要评述,并指出了未来的研究方向。     

中小学教师健康坚韧性及影响因素的研究

坚韧性是一丛能够保护个体免于应激伤害的人格特质,包括承诺、控制和挑战三部分内容。以中小学教师为被试,采用问卷调查的方法考察教师的健康坚韧性状况和影响因素。研究发现,教师的健康坚韧性整体上较为理想,教龄、性别、婚姻状况、学校层次和学历水平是影响教师健康坚韧性的重要因素。     

青少年未来时间洞察力与学业成绩的关系:坚韧性的中介作用

对756名青少年进行问卷调查,考察未来时间洞察力、坚韧性与学业成绩之间的关系。结果发现：（1）未来消极、未来迷茫显著负向预测学业成绩,未来坚持和未来计划能显著正向预测学业成绩;（2）坚韧性在未来时间洞察力的六个维度与学业成绩之间的关系各不相同。具体而言,坚韧性在未来积极和未来清晰与学业成绩之间无中介效应,坚韧性在未来消极与学业成绩之间起部分中介作用,坚韧性在未来迷茫、未来坚持、未来计划与学业成绩之间起完全中介作用。     

心理资本对员工的工作绩效、组织承诺及组织公民行为的影响

通过对198对直接领导和员工的实证研究,探讨了心理资本及希望、乐观和坚韧性三种积极心理状态与员工的工作绩效、组织承诺和组织公民行为之间的关系。结果表明：在控制了性别和年龄两个人口统计学变量的效应后,员工的希望、乐观和坚韧性三种积极心理状态,都对他们的工作绩效、组织承诺和组织公民行为有积极影响;员工的希望、乐观和坚韧性三者合并而成的心理资本,对他们的工作绩效、组织承诺和组织公民行为有积极影响     

累积情境风险与职业女性自杀意念的关系:有中介的调节模型

采用自编基本情况问卷、紧张性生活事件评定量表、社会支持评定量表、工作家庭冲突量表、坚韧性人格量表、心理痛楚量表和Beck自杀意念量表中文版对广东、河南、天津、北京等地的1092名职业女性进行调查,建立有中介的调节模型,考察坚韧性人格对累积情境风险与职业女性自杀意念关系的调节效应,以及心理痛楚在该调节模型中的中介效应。结果表明:(1)累积情境风险可正向预测职业女性的自杀意念;(2)坚韧性人格对累积情境风险和职业女性自杀意念之间的关系具有调节效应;(3)该调节效应以心理痛楚为完全中介,即,心理痛楚是坚韧性人格调节累积情境风险和职业女性自杀意念关系的中介变量。     

累积情境风险与职业女性自杀意念的关系:有中介的调节模型

采用自编基本情况问卷、紧张性生活事件评定量表、社会支持评定量表、工作家庭冲突量表、坚韧性人格量表、心理痛楚量表和Beck自杀意念量表中文版对广东、河南、天津、北京等地的1092名职业女性进行调查,建立有中介的调节模型,考察坚韧性人格对累积情境风险与职业女性自杀意念关系的调节效应,以及心理痛楚在该调节模型中的中介效应。结果表明:(1)累积情境风险可正向预测职业女性的自杀意念;(2)坚韧性人格对累积情境风险和职业女性自杀意念之间的关系具有调节效应;(3)该调节效应以心理痛楚为完全中介,即,心理痛楚是坚韧性人格调节累积情境风险和职业女性自杀意念关系的中介变量。     

累积情境风险与职业女性自杀意念的关系：有中介的调节模型*

采用自编基本情况问卷、紧张性生活事件评定量表、社会支持评定量表、工作家庭冲突量表、坚韧性人格量表、心理痛楚量表和Beck自杀意念量表中文版对广东、河南、天津、北京等地的1092名职业女性进行调查,建立有中介的调节模型,考察坚韧性人格对累积情境风险与职业女性自杀意念关系的调节效应,以及心理痛楚在该调节模型中的中介效应。结果表明：（1）累积情境风险可正向预测职业女性的自杀意念;（2）坚韧性人格对累积情境风险和职业女性自杀意念之间的关系具有调节效应;（3）该调节效应以心理痛楚为完全中介,即,心理痛楚是坚韧性人格调节累积情境风险和职业女性自杀意念关系的中介变量。     

应激的缓冲器：人格坚韧性

过去30年来,关注身心保健和组织行为的心理学家都对人格心理学中的一个概念发生了兴趣,就是人格坚韧性（hardiness）,大量实证研究证明人格坚韧性可以有效地缓解生活应激给人们带来的身心不适,并有助于提高人们在各领域的工作表现。该文在回顾西方以往研究的基础上,介绍这一概念,以及这方面研究的不足之处,并提出在中国开展此项研究的思路。作为整体人格结构的一部分,人格坚韧性应该从人格“大五”或“大七”结构中探索。在中国已有研究发现,人格“大七”维度对身心健康有不同的影响,哪些维度构成人格坚韧性,这些问题有待进一步的研究     

农民工情绪性、弹性和坚韧性特质及其对心理健康的预测作用

采用"中国成年人情绪性量表""中国成年人心理弹性量表""中国成年人坚韧性量表""总体幸福感量表""SCL-10"对559名农民工进行了测试,旨在考察农民工情绪性、坚韧性和弹性特质的负载情况及其对心理健康的预测作用。结果表明,农民工的积极情绪性特质和坚韧性特质的负载量显著高于全国成年人常模,而弹性特质负载量显著低于全国成年人常模;情绪性、坚韧性和弹性特质对于主观幸福感具有显著正向预测作用,而对心理痛苦症状具有显著反向预测作用。     

青少年学习心理安宁感的发展研究

采用青少年EPOCH心理安宁感量表中文版对417名青少年进行了测查,检验了青少年EPOCH心理安宁感量表中文版在我国青少年群体中的信、效度。并对1759名中小学生进行了测查,发现青少年群体中在投入性、坚韧性、乐观性、乐群性和愉悦性上重点校学生显著高于一般校学生;女生在坚韧性和乐群性上显著高于男生;随年级的逐渐升高,青少年对投入性、坚韧性、乐观性、乐群性和愉悦性的评价呈现逐渐降低的趋势。     

中国人的人格与心理健康

系统总结了中国人人格与心理健康之间关系的研究。首先,对心理健康的含义进行了理论分析,提出了心理健康由心身症状的缺失、行为抑制的降低、自我和谐水平的提高以及主观幸福感的提升等4个不同的水平构成,并对人格与心理健康的4个水平之间的关系进行了综述,特别分析了人格与心理健康的结构方程模型,以及不同人格维度对心理健康的促进、抑制、及促进-抑制作用。文中还提出了建立中国人的人格耐受性模型的设想,并对将来研究的方向进行了讨论     

Hardiness and health: a critique and alternative approach

Recent research has suggested that individual differences in the personality variable of hardiness are related to health and illness. Despite some success at predicting health outcomes, there are several theoretical and empirical problems that must be addressed before research on this topic can proceed. Most critical are (a) how hardiness is to be measured; (b) whether hardiness should be treated as a unitary phenomenon or as three separate phenomena associated with commitment, control, and challenge; and (c) whether hardiness has direct effects on health or indirect effects by virtue of buffering the impact of stressful life events. After reviewing the literature and presenting our own study of the psychometric properties of the Hardiness Scale and its subcomponents, we draw the following conclusions: (a) Hardiness is not a unitary phenomenon, but should be treated as involving three separate phenomena; (b) of the three subcomponents of hardiness, only commitment and control have adequate psychometric properties and are systematically related to health outcomes; (c) lack of control and lack of commitment have direct effects on health because they are psychologically stressful; and (d) if there are buffering effects of commitment and control, they are in addition to these direct effects and are situation specific. Such a systematic consideration of the problems and prospects of the hardiness literature should facilitate research on this important topic.     

Health practices and hardiness as mediators in the stress-illness relationship

Two stress and illness models that include the joint mediating effects of health practices and hardiness were tested prospectively over a 2-month period. At the beginning of one academic quarter, 60 female and 26 male undergraduate students completed five subscales indexing hardiness. Stress, health practices, and illness for the prior month were assessed at this time as well as 1 and 2 months later. Stress was measured by the number of negatively rated stressors reported on the Life Experiences Survey. Health practices were measured by the Self Care Inventory. In the first model, illness was measured by the severity of physical symptoms reported on the Seriousness of Illness Rating Scale; in the second model, it was measured by the number of symptoms reported. Correlations between all measures of stress and illness were typical for life events research (r = .22 to .29). In both models, path analyses revealed that stress acted directly to affect illness as well as indirectly by changing health practices. Hardiness also had a direct effect on illness as well as in indirect effect through health practices. Hardiness did not appear to have a stress-buffering effect on illness; rather, its effects on illness appeared to be independent of its effects on stress. Implications for life events research are discussed.     

Hardiness and health among women with rheumatoid arthritis

The relations among hardiness (and its components) and demographic variables, objective health, disability, and perceived health were investigated for 33 women with rheumatoid arthritis. Hardiness and demographic variables were measured once while objective health, disability, and perceived health were measured at three monthly intervals. Hardiness and/or component scores were significantly (P < 0.05) related to age and to employment status but were unrelated to education and to marital status. The control dimension of hardiness was positively correlated with the average percentage of circulating T-cells (r = 0.38, P < 0.05), and with average perceived health compared to one's same age peers (r = 0.53, P < 0.01). Hardiness appears to be a useful construct for understanding adaptation to rheumatoid arthritis, and studies of patients with chronic diseases can shed light on the precursors and consequences of hardiness.     

The Protective Value of Hardiness on Military Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms

This study examined the protective effects of hardiness (dispositional resilience) on self-reported posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in a sample of postdeployed service members. Hardiness was negatively related to PTSD symptoms. Time in the military, number of deployments, and total time spent on deployment were all positively related to PTSD symptoms. Hardiness moderated the effects of time in the military on PTSD symptoms, such that time in the military had no effect on those who were high in hardiness. Hardiness did not moderate the effects of either deployment measure. Suggestions to modify current military resilience training programs to most effectively enhance the benefits of hardiness are discussed.     

Hardy personality: a potential link with organizational citizenship behavior

Hardiness is a personality construct which is assumed to protect the individual from stress-induced illness. Although widely accepted, hardiness has shown only modest relations with the development of illness. Examining the components of hardiness indicates apparent consistency with organizational citizenship behaviors such as obedience, participation, and loyalty. This study investigated the potential relations between hardiness and organizational citizenship behavior, using Kobasa's Personal Views Survey, and Van Dyne, Graham, and Diensch's citizenship measure. Subjects were 129 unionized employees whose mean age was 37 yr.; 58% were men. Correlations and regressions indicated that scores for total hardiness and its components of commitment and control were linked to citizenship behaviors. Differential relationhips were identified between hardiness and citizenship behavior for individuals with high versus low scores on hardy personality. Hardiness appears to have a positive association with organizational effectiveness through its link to citizenship behavior and consequently may have more implications for organizational behavior than for health.     

Hardiness, type A behavior, and the stress-illness relation in working women

Hardiness has been proposed as a stress-resistance resource in maintaining health. This construct has been shown to act in conjunction with the Type A behavior pattern in affecting illness. In this study, we examined this relation in women (N = 82) with the use of the Structured Interview and the Jenkins Activity Survey to assess Type A behavior. As expected, there was a strong stress-illness association. However, there were no hardiness main effects nor interactions between stress, Type A behavior, and hardiness. Hardiness was significantly associated with age, education level, and marital status. No differences in hardiness composition were found between high stress/high illness and high stress/low illness groups. Only the Powerlessness scale of hardiness was related to illness. These results are discussed in comparison with other hardiness studies. Particular attention is focused on possible sex differences, and implications for future research are suggested.     

Hardiness and major personality factors.

This study tested Maddi and Khoshaba's 1994 hypothesis that Hardiness is an index of mental health. A sample of 241 undergraduates (103 men and 138 women) completed the Dispositional Resilience Scale, the Revised NEO Personality Inventory, and the Psychopathology-5 Scales. Using the individual median scores on the three subscales (Commitment, Control, and Challenge) of the Dispositional Resilience Scale, the High Hardiness group was obtained by identifying the individuals who scored above the medians on all the three subscales, whereas the Low Hardiness group were those who scored consistently below the medians on all the three subscales. Multivariate analysis of variance performed for the two hardiness groups using the scales from each personality inventory indicated that the two groups had significantly different mean profiles on the NEO Personality Inventory as well as the Psychopathology-5 Scales. Combined discriminant function analysis performed for the two hardiness groups using all the 10 scales from the two personality inventories indicated that the two groups had significantly different mean profiles and that the standard discriminant function coefficients were substantial (> .3) for the NEO Personality Inventory Openness (.65) and Conscientiousness (.49) scales and the Psychopathology-5 Positive Emotionality (.56) and Psychoticism (-.36) scales, supporting the tested hypothesis.