Hardiness : turning stressful circumstances into resilient growth / Salvatore R. Maddi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maddi, Salvatore R.

Series:

SpringerBriefs in psychology

SpringerBriefs in psychology, 2192-8363

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Resilience (Personality trait).

Physical Description:

xi, 88 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, [2013]

Contents:

1 The Importance of Resiliency in Daily Living 1

The Naturally Stressful Nature of the Personal Development Process 1

We Live in the Centuries of Change 3

The Ongoing Need for Thriving Under Stress 5

References 6

2 Personal Hardiness as the Basis for Resilience 7

Hardiness as the Pathway to Resilience 8

The Longitudinal Study of Stress at Illinois Bell Telephone 10

Hardiness Helps Turn Stresses into Growth Opportunities 13

References 16

3 Thirty Years of Hardiness Validational Research and Practice 19

Hardiness Emerges as a Distinctive Pattern of Attitudes and Strategies 19

Hardiness Improves Health Under Stress 21

Hardiness Improves Performance and Conduct Under Stress 22

The Relative Effectiveness of Hardiness and Other Individual Characteristics 24

Where Does Hardiness Come From? 25

References 26

4 Hardiness Assessment and Training 29

The Development and Effectiveness of Hardiness Assessment 29

The Initial Development of Hardiness Training 31

The First Hardy Coping Step is Situational Reconstruction 32

The Second Hardy Coping Step is Focusing 33

The Third Hardy Coping Step is Compensatory Self-Improvement 34

The Previous Steps Lead to Formulating and Carrying out an Action Plan 35

The Effectiveness of the Initial Form of Hardiness Training 37

The Further Development of the HardiTraining Program 37

The Effectiveness of the HardiTraining Program 38

Becoming a Certified Hardiness Trainer 40

References 41

5 Raising Hardy Children 43

The Hardy Attitudes 44

Supportive Early Interactions Build the Hardy Attitude of Commitment 44

Early Environments Permitting Mastery Build the Hardy Attitude of Control 45

Ongoing Changes Construed as Richness Build the Hardy Attitude of Challenge 46

The Hardy Strategies 47

Parents Need to Emphasize Problem-Solving Coping 48

Parents Need to Emphasize Supportive Social Interactions 49

Parents Need to Emphasize Taking Care of Oneself 49

In all this, Parents Need to Admire, Respect, and Love Their Young 50

References 51

6 Applying Hardiness to Teaching and Counseling 53

Teaching Hardiness in Schools 53

Obtaining the School's Approval for the Hardiness Course 54

Effectiveness of the Hardiness Training Course on Students 55

Teaching Hardiness in Counseling 56

Conformism and Existential Sickness 57

Specifics of Hardiness Counseling 58

Case Examples from Hardiness Counseling 60

References 62

7 Hardiness as a Relationship and Work Facilitator 65

The Changing Nature of Relationships and Work Situations 65

The Importance of Learning Through Failures as Well as Successes 66

Deepening Significant Relationships into Intimacy 67

Engaging in Fulfilling Work by Learning all the Time 68

Neither Relationships Nor Work Settings Need Last Forever 68

References 69

8 How Hardiness Facilitates Functioning in Military and Safety Roles 71

The Special Importance of Hardiness 72

Relevant Hardiness Research 74

How Military and Safety Personnel Need to Function in Times of Terrorism 78

References 78

9 The Importance of Hardy Organizations 79

How Organizations Thrive in Turbulent Times Through Hardiness 80

Culture, Climate, Structure, and Personnel of Hardy Organizations 80

What are the Advantages of Hardi Organizations? 82

What are the Disadvantages of Organizations that are not Hardy? 83

Can Hardi Organizations Be Built Simply Through a "Greening Effect"? 84

Assessing and Developing the Hardiness of Organizations 84

References 85

10 The Psychology of Possibility 87.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789400752214

9400752210

OCLC:

798613291