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Resumen: La personalidad resistente constituye un constructo de suma importancia en la protección de la salud, por lo cual es imprescindible la adaptación y validación de instrumentos que permitan evaluarla. El objetivo de este estudio fue estimar las propiedades psicométricas del Cuestionario de Personalidad Resistente (versión no laboral) en la población cubana. Se efectuó un estudio instrumental que incluyó 400 sujetos residentes en 6 provincias de Cuba. La edad media fue de 48 (±14.7) años; el 54.5 % de la muestra fue del sexo femenino. Se estimaron tres modelos, de ellos el que mostró mejores índices de ajuste fue el trifactorial (control, implicación y reto) con un factor de segundo orden (personalidad resistente) reducido a partir de la eliminación de dos reactivos. Se obtuvieron valores aceptables de confiabilidad tanto global (a=0.83) como en cada dimensión: control y reto (a=0.77) e implicación (a=0.70). La validez concurrente aporta evidencia sobre el valor de las subescalas control y compromiso.
Abstract: The hardiness is a variable of great importance in the protection of health, so the validation and adaptation of instruments to evaluate it are necessary. The objective of the research was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Hardiness Questionnaire (non-work version) for a sample of the Cuban population. An instrumental study was carried out based on the quantitative research paradigm. The sample selection was made based on a cluster sampling that included 400 subjects residing in six provinces of the country. The standard age chosen was 48 (±14.7); 54.5 % of the simple was for females. Three models were estimated, the one who showed better scores was the trifactorial one (control, implication and challenge) with a factor of a second order (hardiness) reduced from the elimination of two reactive. Some acceptable figures of reliability were obtained, both global (a=0.83) and as in each dimension: control and challenge (a=0.77) and implication (a=0.70). The recurrent validity brings evidence of the value of the subscales control and commitment.
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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Middle Aged , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Personality , Psychometrics , Work , Surveys and Questionnaires , Adaptation to Disasters , CubaABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the hardiness level of military medical students and to explore its influencing factors. Methods A total of 543 medical students from a military university were investigated with Chinese adult hardiness personality scale, general self-efficacy scale and perceived social support scale. Multiple linear regression model was performed to explore the predictive factors of hardiness of medical students. Results A total of 543 questionnaires were sent out, and 504 valid questionnaires were collected, with an effective recovery rate of 92.8%. The total score of hardiness was 72.91±13.03, and the average score of the items was 2.70±0.48. The average score of resilience items was the highest (2.81±0.56), followed by control (2.70±0.51), commitment (2.69±0.55) and challenge (2.62±0.55). Frequency of extracurricular activities (β＝0.121, P＝0.002), self-efficacy (β＝0.432, P＜0.01) and friend support (β＝0.170, P＜0.01) were predictive factors of hardiness, and they could explain 27.5% variances of hardiness in military medical students. Conclusion The hardiness of military medical students is relatively low and need to be improved. Encouraging the students to participate in extracurricular activities, promoting their self-efficacy and increasing their friend support may help to upgrade the hardiness of military medical students.
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Objective@#To investigate the current status of family hardiness and its influencing factors in children with leukemia.@*Methods@#The children with leukemia and their caregivers in the Children's Hospital of Shanxi from August to November 2017 were enrolled. A questionnaire survey was conducted using a convenient sampling method, and 100 questionnaires were distributed. The questionnaire included the General Status Questionnaire, the Family Hardiness Index (FHI), the Coping Health Inventory for Parents (CHIP) and the Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS).@*Results@#A total of 92 valid questionnaires were collected. Among the scores of family hardiness in children with leukemia [(3.29±0.43) points], the responsibility score [(3.32±0.45) points] was higher than the control score [(3.31±0.46) points] and the challenge score [(3.23±0.53) points], and the challenge score was the lowest. The score of frequency of coping styles used by the caregiver of the child with leukemia was (3.64±0.70) points, the most frequent coping style used by the caregiver was "family unity, optimism, cooperative attitude" [(3.73±0.89) points], and the positive [(3.28±0.84) points] and negative [(2.51±0.80) points] emotions were in a moderate state. The child's sex, age, stage of chemotherapy and medical insurance status, the caregiver of the child, the age of the caregiver, the family's place of residence, and the education level were the related factors affecting the family hardiness score (all P < 0.01). The age of child, CHIP-1, CHIP-2, positive emotion and negative emotion were independent factors affecting the family hardiness (all P < 0.05). The CHIP, CHIP-1, CHIP-2 and positive emotion were positively correlated with the family hardiness (r values were 0.827, 0.883, 0.707 and 0.846, all P < 0.01); the negative emotion was negatively correlated with the family hardiness (r=-0.832, P < 0.01).@*Conclusion@#The family hardiness of children with leukemia is in the middle and upper level, the children's age, caregiver's coping style, positive emotion and negative emotion are factors affecting the family hardiness.
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Objective To investigate the current status of hardiness and quality of life (QoL) among patients with Parkinson disease (PD) and analyze the correlation between hardiness and QoL.Methods By convenience sampling,243 patients with PD were recruited from a tertiary hospital in Dalian during February 2017 and May 2017.General Scale,Hardiness Scale for Chinese Adults and Parkinson disease Questionnaire-39 item Version (PDQ39) were employed to measure hardiness and QoL among patients with PD.Results The hardiness score was (1.96±0.66) and the PDQ39 score was (35.46±20.38).The hardiness score was negatively correlated with PDQ39 score (r=-0.434,P＜0.01).Conclusion Patients with PD have a low level of hardiness and QoL.The higher the level of hardiness,the better the QoL.
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PURPOSE: This study aimed to identify the effect of job stress, coping behavior, and hardiness on burnout in nurses in the emergency department (ED). METHODS: Data were acquired via self-reporting questionnaires from 148 nurses in EDs at one general hospital, four university hospitals, and six hospitals with >200 beds. Data were analyzed using the SPSS 23.0 program through descriptive statistics, t-test, analysis of variance, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and stepwise multiple regression. RESULTS: A statistically significant difference in burnout was observed with respect to the age of the nurses. Burnout was positively correlated with job stress and wishful thinking and detachment, among coping behaviors, and was negatively correlated with hardiness. Job stress and wishful thinking, among coping behaviors, were significant predictors of burnout and were observed in 14.9% of the nurses who experienced burnout. CONCLUSION: According to our results, job stress was identified as the most significant factor which influenced burnout in ED nurse's. Therefore, it is necessary to develop and implement educational programs for reducing job stress and minimizing the use of wishful thinking as a coping behavior in order to alleviate the burnout in ED nurses.
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Adaptation, Psychological , Emergencies , Emergency Service, Hospital , Hospitals, General , Hospitals, University , ThinkingABSTRACT
Objective@#To exmain reliability and validity of the Chinese version of Family Hardiness Index(FHI) among patients with cancer.@*Methods@#A convinent sample of 344 patients with cancer was investigated with a self-designed questionnaire about personal information, the Herth Hope Index (HHI) and the Chinese version of FHI. Item analysis was conducted on each item of the Chinese version of FHI; The construct validity of the scale were evaluated by explorotory factor analysis, the reliability of the scale was also evaluated by calculating the Cronbach α coefficient, the split-half reliability and the retest reliability.@*Results@#The Chinese version of FHI consisted of 20 items. Five factors were extracted by factor analysis which explained 57.900% of the total variance. The score of the Chinese version of FHI was significantly correlated to the total score of HHI (r=0.716, p<0.01) .The Cronbach α coefficient of the Chinese version of FHI was 0.806, and the test-retest reliability coefficient was 0.790 and The split-half reliability was 0.793.@*Conclusion@#The Chinese version of FHI demonstrates good reliability and validity during initial testing among patients with cancer.
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Objective To analyze the status of family hardiness and its influencing factors in children with refractory nephrotic syndrome (RNS).Methods A cross-sectional study was carried out in the family members of 120 children patients with RNS admitted to our hospital from January 2013 to February 2016.The general information questionnaire,family hardiness scale (FHI),general self-efficacy scale (GSES),self-rating anxiety scale (SAS),self-rating depression scale (SDS) and simplified coping style questionnaire (SCSQ) were used for investigation and evaluation.The status of family hardiness of children patients with RNS was summarized and its influencing factors were analyzed.Results (1)Among the scores of family hardiness in patients of children with RNS,the score of responsibility dimension was the highest,followed by the score of control dimension.The self-efficacy scores of the family members were in the middle level,the scores of anxiety and depression were in mild level,and the score of positive coping was relatively higher.(2)The univariate analysis showed that the treatment time,education level of family members,place of residence,family per capita monthly income and medical payment method were the related factors influencing the family hardiness score (P<0.05);the Pearson correlation analysis showed that self-efficacy score and positive coping score were positively correlated with the family hardiness score (r=0.425,P=0.011;r=0.536,P=0.002),while the anxiety and depression scores were negatively correlated with the family hardiness score (r=-0.581,P=0.001;r=-0.671,P=0.000).The multivariate regression analysis showed that the family per capita monthly income,self-efficacy score,anxiety score,depression score and positive coping were the independent factors influencing the family hardiness.Conclusion The family hardiness of patients of children with RNS is in the middle and upper level.The family income,self-efficacy of family members,positive coping style,anxiety and depression emotions are related factors influencing family hardiness.
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Objective To explore the correlation between nursing students' hardiness personality and professional commitment.Methods 1 115 undergraduate nursing students from 3 medical universities in Guangzhou were investigated with the scales of hardiness personality and nursing professional commitment.Results The scores of hardiness personality and professional commitment were (2.55 ± 0.44) and (2.70 ± 0.43),respectively,and both of them were at the middle level.Correlation analysis revealed that hardiness personality was positively related to professional commitment (P＜0.01),and the challenge dimension of hardiness personality had positive predictive effect on professional commitment.Conclusions Nursing educators should take measures to improve students' hardiness personality and professional commitment.It would help maintain the stability of the whole nursing team.
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Esta revisão sistemática da literatura trata do construto teórico de hardiness dirigido a profissionais de primeira resposta, detectando sua aplicabilidade em contextos de exposição regular a incidentes críticos. Consultou-se bases de dados (EBSCO, Web of Science e PsycINFO) no período de abril a junho de 2013, restringindo-se a artigos em português, inglês e espanhol publicados entre 2003 e 2013. Assim, 10 artigos compuseram esta revisão, sendo estes agrupados em um bloco temático hardiness como agente amortecedor dos efeitos nocivos do estresse. Bombeiros, profissionais de enfermagem, médicos, paramédicos, militares e policiais compuseram os profissionais estudados. Hardiness mostrou estar negativamente relacionado ao mal-estar psíquico, ao desenvolvimento de quadros de adoecimento emocional e exercer influência negativa no uso de mecanismos desadaptativos e de risco, considerando as amostras elencadas nas pesquisas. Também mostrou relação positiva com bem estar psicológico e com a capacidade de enfretamento eficiente, útil e saudável em ambientes altamente estressantes.(AU)
This article provides a systematic revision in the literature regarding the hardiness construct, aimed to first responders, checking its applicability on scenarios where there is a regular exposure to critical incidents. From April to June, 2013, the EBSCO, Web of Science and PsycINFO databases were searched, looking for articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish, published between 2003 and 2013. After applying the inclusion and exclusion criteria, 10 articles ended up being included in this revision. They were then grouped, based on their goals and identified associations, in a single thematic block hardiness as a weakening agent from the harmful effects of stress. The professionals studied comprised firemen, nurses, doctors, paramedics, military and policemen. From the studies analysis it is concluded that hardiness was shown to be negatively related to psychological distress, development of emotional illness and negatively influence the use of maladaptive and risky mechanisms, considering the samples listed in researches. Likewise, it showed a positive relationship with psychological well-being and the ability of efficient, helpful and healthful coping in highly stressful environments.(AU)
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Humans , Health Personnel , Disasters , Emergencies , Emergency Responders , First AidABSTRACT
This cross-cultural study investigated and compared the influence of hardiness in burnout among Portuguese and Brazilian nurses, as measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory- Human Service Survey (MBI-HSS) and the Personal Views Survey (PVS). The sample consisted of 630 nurses working in hospitals (394 Portuguese, 236 Brazilians). The statistical analysis using multiple linear regression showed that hardiness is a personality trait that explains burnout, presenting different predictive models for each sample. Results suggested that overall work characteristics and work settings of Portuguese and Brazilian nurses explained the differences found between the samples. Findings suggested that future applied interventions aiming to reduce burnout among Portuguese and Brazilian nurses, should contemplate different hardiness dimensions.
Estudo transcultural que buscou explorar a influência do hardiness nas dimensões da Síndrome de Burnout em enfermeiros portugueses e brasileiros, avaliados através do Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services (MBI-HSS) e do Personal Views Survey (PVS). A amostra foi constituída por 630 enfermeiros (394 Portugueses, 236 Brasileiros) que exerciam as suas funções no contexto hospitalar. Os resultados, obtidos por meio de análise de Regressão Linear Múltipla, indicam que hardiness, enquanto traço de personalidade, explica de forma significativa a Síndrome de Burnout nos enfermeiros, revelando diferenças nos modelos preditivos de acordo com a nacionalidade. As evidências encontradas sugerem a importância das características do trabalho e do contexto laboral na explicação das diferenças encontradas em ambas as amostras. Os resultados sugerem que intervenções para reduzir o burnout dos enfermeiros portugueses e brasileiros devem contemplar as diferentes dimensões do hardiness.
Se trata de un estudio transcultural que busca explorar la influencia del hardiness en las dimensiones del síndrome de burnout en enfermeras brasileñas y portuguesas, evaluados con el Maslach Burnout Inventory-Human Services (MBI-HSS) e do Personal Views Survey (PVS). La muestra fue constituida por 630 enfermeras (394 portugueses, 236 brasileños) que trabajavan en el contexto hospitalario. Los resultados obtenidos mediante análisis de regresión lineal múltiple indican que el hardiness, como un rasgo de la personalidad, explica significativamente el síndrome de burnout en enfermeras, mostrando diferencias significativas en los modelos de predicción de acuerdo con la nacionalidad. La evidencia destaca la importancia de las características del trabajo y el contexto de para explicar las diferencias encontradas en ambas muestras. Los resultados sugieren que las intervenciones para reducir el burnout en enfermeros portugueses y brasileños deben tener en cuenta las diferentes dimensiones de hardiness.
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Humans , Male , Female , Adult , Nurses, Male , Burnout, ProfessionalABSTRACT
Objetivo: Conduzir uma revisão sistemática sobre resiliência psicológica e/ou hardiness em militares, explorando seus aspectos psicossociais, neurobiológicos, preditores e promotores. Métodos: Utilizaram-se as bases de dados PubMed/MedLine, ISI/Web of Science e PsycINFO, incluindo artigos empíricos publicados nas línguas inglesa, portuguesa e espanhola até maio de 2012. Os seguintes termos foram utilizados: “militar*”, “Army”, “war”, “veteran*”, “resilien*” e “hardiness”. Resultados: Foram incluídos 32 estudos selecionados a partir de 1.205 artigos. O foco da maioria das pesquisas recai sobre a correlação resiliência/hardiness e aspectos psicossociais. Confirmou-se o papel protetivo da resiliência/hardiness quanto ao transtorno de estresse pós-traumático (TEPT), assim como a associação direta entre resiliência e saúde. Neuropeptídeo Y (NPY) e deidroepiandrosterona (DHEA) foram os biomarcadores mais estudados. Os níveis de NPY no plasma podem representar um correlato biológico de resiliência ou recuperação dos efeitos adversos do estresse. Somente dois estudos abordaram fatores preditores de resiliência em amostras militares, sugerindo ser a exposição a situações adversas, o apoio social e o gênero fatores considerados preditores desse construto. Apenas um estudo avaliou a eficiência de intervenção para fortalecer a resiliência. Conclusão: Apesar da crucial relevância da resiliência, há poucos estudos em amostras militares. Estudos neurobiológicos como os do NPY são promissores. A ausência de ensaio randomizado controlado avaliando eficácia de intervenções promotoras da resiliência demonstra como esse construto vem sendo negligenciado ...
Objective: Conducting a systematic review about psychological resilience and/or hardiness within the military personnel, exploring its psychosocial, neurobiological, predicting and promoting aspects. Methods: The databases PubMed/MedLine, ISI/Web of Science and PsycINFO were used, including empirical articles published in English, Portuguese and Spanish until May of 2012. The following terms were used: “militar*”, “Army”, “war”, “veteran*”, “resilien*” and “hardiness”. Results: Thirty-two studies were included, after being selected out of 1,205 articles. In the majority of research studies, the focus is on the correlation between resilience/hardiness and psychosocial aspects. The protective role of resilience/hardiness with relation to PTSD, as well as the direct association between resilience and health, has already been proved. Neuropeptide Y (NPY) and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) have been the most researched biomarkers. NPY levels in plasma can represent a biological correlate for resilience or recovery from the adverse effects caused by stress. Only two studies have been conducted about resilience-predicting factors within military samples, indicating exposition to adverse situations, social support and gender as predicting factors for such construct. Only one study has evaluated the efficiency of a resilience-strengthening intervention. Conclusion: Despite the crucial relevance of resilience, few studies have been conducted in military samples. Neurobiological studies, such as the ones about NPY, are promising. The absence of a controlled randomized trial evaluating the efficacy of resilience-promoting interventions demonstrates how this construct has been neglected within this risky profession, which should be a priority focus area for future studies. .
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Objective The purpose of this study was to identify the effect factors on family adaptation of hospitalized children.Methods A survey was conducted in 330 hospitalized children's parents using questionnaires such as FSI,FVI,FHI,FWBI.Results Multiple factor analysis showed that the strongest resilience factor was family hardiness,the second one was general family value on family adaptation of hospitalized children.Conclusions Family hardiness and family value have the adjusting role on family adaptation of hospitalized children.Therefore,the significance of this study can be used to develop family nursing intervention program based on family resilience to strengthen family adaptation of hospitalized children.
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Objective To know about the current status of the work engagement of the clinical nurses,and discuss the relatioaships among hardiness,perceived organizational support and work engagement so as to provide basis for improving the level of the work engagement of the clinical nurses.Methods The work engagement scale,hardiness scale and perceived organizational support scale were used to investigate a total of 630 clinical nurses.Results The general score of work engagement,hardiness and perceived organizational support were showed respectively as following:(52.54±8.08),(70.09±14.44) and(82.41±24.98).Every two items of hardiness,perceived organizational support and work engagement were in significant positive correlation.Regression analysis showed after the variable of demographic was controlled,the hardiness and perceived organizational support respectively had significant positive predictive function on work engagement as respective independent variables.Conclusions Hospital managers should create a good working environment for clinical nurses,measures should be taken from individual and organizational aspects so as to improve the hardiness and perceived organizational support and the work positivity of the clinical nurses,in order to make the nurses more positively devoted to their work.It had important practical significance to improve the quality of their services and stabilize nursing group.
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PURPOSE: This descriptive correlation study was done to identify the hardiness, coping behavior, and organizational commitment of general hospital employees and show how these variables affect increases in role performance and problem solving ability to have a positive influence on organizational harmony. METHODS: A quantitative, descriptive research design was used with a sample of 368 employees working in general hospitals in M and C cities. A survey was used to collect the data. RESULTS: The score for perception of hardiness of general hospital employees was 2.85, and coping behavior was 2.40, both out of a possible 4 points, and organizational commitment, 3.03 out of a possible 5 points. There were statistically significant positive correlations between hardiness and coping behavior (r=.33, p<.001), also between hardiness and organizational commitment (r=.51, p<.001), and also between coping behavior and organizational commitment (r=.22, p<.001). CONCLUSION: The results of the study indicate that hardiness, coping behavior, and organizational commitment in general hospital employees have positive correlations, and thus hospital administrators should explore ways of increase individual employee hardiness and coping behavior, and make efforts to harmonize their organizations by enhancing organizational commitment.
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Humans , Adaptation, Psychological , Hospital Administrators , Hospitals, General , Problem Solving , Research Design , Statistics as TopicABSTRACT
Las personas que viven situaciones muy adversas, pueden sufrir consecuencias muy serias en su desarrollo psicológico. Sin embargo, se ha podido constatar que algunos individuos logran no solo superar la adversidad, sino incluso salir fortalecidos de ella. A estas personas se las llama resilientes. La resiliencia no es unidimensional o un atributo dicotómico que las personas tienen o no tienen; implica la posesión de múltiples habilidades en varios grados que ayudan a los individuos a afrontar (Reivich & Shatté, 2002). El objetivo del trabajo que se informa fue desarrollar un instrumento con población mexicana (Escala de Resiliencia Mexicana, RESI-M), tomando como base dos escalas que miden la resiliencia en adultos: The Connor - Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) de Connor y Davidson (1999) y The Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA) de Friborg, Hjemdal, Rosenvinge y Martinussen (2001) para lo cual participaron 217 sujetos de 18 a 25 años, de ambos sexos. Los resultados muestran que 43 ítemes cargaron en cinco factores: (1) Fortaleza y confianza en sí mismo, (2) Competencia social, (3) Apoyo familiar, (4) Apoyo social y (5) Estructura. Asimismo, se observó que existen diferencias estadísticamente significativas en los factores de la resiliencia, de acuerdo con el sexo, la edad y el estado civil, observándose que las mujeres obtienen puntajes más altos en apoyo social, el grupo de más edad tiene un mayor promedio en competencia social y apoyo familiar y final-mente las personas casadas se sienten más fuertes y con más confianza en sí mismas y los solteros perciben un mayor apoyo social en comparación con los casados.
People who live through adverse situations may experience serious consequences in their psychological development. However there is evidence that show that many individuals have not only been able to overcome such difficulties but have emerged stronger from them. These people we may call resilient. Resilience is not a dimensional or a dichotomous attribute that individuals have or have not; it implies the possession of multiple habilities in some level that help individual to cope (Reivich & Shatté, 2002). The object of the current study has been to develop a scale with Mexican population (Mexican Resilience Scale RESI-M) the use of two scales which may be used to measure resilience in adults. The Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC, 1999) and the Resilience Scale for Adults (RSA - Friborg, Hjemdal, Rosenvinge, & Martinussen, (001)). The research included 217 adults between the ages 17 to 25 of both sexes. The results showed that of the 43 recognized items, five factors have been formed. (1) Strength and confidence in theirselves: Personal competition, high standards and determination. It is the conviction that one is sufficiently prepared to be able to face any situation that appears even if unforeseen. It is the conviction that, although not all the answers might be known, one can look for them and find them. It refers to the set of positive expectations on oneself or more specific oneself actions, as well as to the aptitude to accept or to cope with events in spite of the stress that they may inflict with it. (2) Social competence: Capacity or ability of the subject to interact in a successful way with his environment and to achieve the legitimate satisfaction of his needs, upon exercising determined influence on his similar (in the sense of to be taken into account), is a quality very related to the health, the emotional adjustment and the welfare of the individuals. (3) Family support: It refers to the time that the members of the family share, the loyalty that exists among them and the fortress of the family ties. (4) Social support: It refers tothe existing links among the subject and a definite assembly of people, with which is feasible the exchange of communication, solidarity and confidence. (5) Structure: It is understood like the rules and the activities that carry out the people and that facilitate them to have organization and order in their life. At the same time they observed the existence of statistical differences in the factors of the resilience according to gender, age and marital status, observing that women obtained higher scores in social support, the older group has higher scores in social competence and familiar support and finally, married people feel emotionally stronger and higher self-confidence and single group senses higher supported (social support) than married. To conclude we can affirm that according to the results of this study, it can be observed that this construct is multidimensional since includes abilities of diverse type that help the individuals to cope in life. The RESI-M contains five dimensions, in which they are grouped some of the characteristics that emphasize the resilient answers in different levels: individual, family and social. The individual level is very important since this related to behaviors such as to set goals, to be motivated, to be engaged, to have self-control, to be responsible, to make decisions, to confront pacific and objectively the problems, to have an internal locus of control and a sense of life, as well as to be optimist, they are very powerful tools to confront difficult situations. It is considered besides that the family support is the most important social backup, since is in the family breast where is educated the children, security offers them and so much material as emotional support. Nevertheless other sources of support exist such as the school, the friends, the tutors, among others, that also they respond to the needs of the individuals.
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Objective To discuss the influence of hardiness conception utilization on rehabilitation of breast cancer patients. Methods 80 breast cancer patients were involved in this trial, the responsible nurses collected and analyzed the data of patients by interview, observation, and investigation question-naires, then gave patients individual directions of hardiness conception according to stage and primary and secondary of the data to arouse the hardiness characteristic of patients. The application results underwentχ2 test. Results The number of psychical problems decreased and the need of information about breast cancer increased obviously after the direction. Conclusions The utilization of hardiness conception can strengthen patients' confidence, raise their treatment compliance, and promote their rehabilitation.
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OBJECTIVES: This study investigated the association between alcohol problems and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, psychological hardiness, and coping mechanisms in firefighters. METHODS: We conducted an e-mail survey of 131 firefighters who were working at the two fire department stations in Gyeonggido, receiving replies from 96. Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT), Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R), Hardiness Scale, and The Ways of Coping Checklist were used to collect the data. We divided the subjects into three drinking groups per their AUDIT scores : social, problem, and abuse drinking groups and compared PTSD symptoms, psychological hardiness, and coping strategies among the groups. RESULTS: Of the 96 firefighters, 73 (76.1%), 11 (11.4%), and 12 (11.4%) belonged to the social, problem, and abuse drinking groups, respectively. Control, one component of psychological hardiness, was significantly lower in the abuse drinking group. However, IES-R scores and four subscales of the Ways of Coping Checklist did not vary significantly among the groups. CONCLUSION: These results suggest an approach focused on psychological hardiness should show a preventive effect with regard to firefighters' alcohol problems.
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Humans , Checklist , Drinking , Electronic Mail , Firefighters , Fires , Stress Disorders, Post-TraumaticABSTRACT
Objective To explore the relationship of hardiness,stress and psychological symptoms.Methods 622 college students participated the present study.Hardiness Scale,Chinese College Student Psychochological symptoms(r=-0.240,P＜0.01).Stress had significantly positive correlation with psychological sympefficient of interaction between stress and hardiness had significant predictability on psychological symptoms(△R2=0.041,P＜0.01).Conclusion Stress had a significant predictability on psychological symptoms.Hardiness was a moderator on stress and psychological symptoms,which can relieve adverse effects induced by stress.
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Objective:To investigate learning burnout of undergraduates and its relationship with health-related hardiness.Methods:408 undergraduates were investigated with Undergraduate Learning Burnout Scale and Health-Related Hardiness Scale.Results:Boys scores were significantly higher than those of girls in behavior inadequacy, reduced personal accomplishment and general burnout;significant differences were found between grades in emotion turndown and majors in emotion turndown, reduced personal accomplishment and general burnout.Health-related hardiness has a sig-nificant negative correlation with learning burnout.The results of regression analysis found that control and commitment were the effective precursors.Conclusion:Health-related hardiness has a significant influence on undergraduates' learning burnout.
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PURPOSE: This study was performed to identify relationships among stress, hardiness, and the level of self-care in kidney transplant patients and use the results of this study as baseline data for developing self-care promotion programs. METHOD: Subjects were 41 patients who undergone a kidney transplantation surgery at least one month before and were receiving regular follow-up care via OPD. Four researchers interviewed each subjects by filling out questionnaires. RESULTS: The mean score of the level of stress was 2.32(SD=0.54) on a 4 point scale and the mean score of hardiness was 4.68(SD=0.62) on a 6 point scale. The mean score of self-care among the subjects was 3.83(SD=0.55). There was statistically a significant positive relationship between self-care and hardiness(r=0.42). Especially, relationships between self-care and commitment (r=.51) and control(r=.36) as the sub- dimensions of hardiness were significant. The item suggested as most stressful was economic burden and the item suggested as least stressful was sexual activity. CONCLUSION: Although transplant patients have various stressors, the positive self-care activities of the patients could be increased if the commitment and control were enhanced by proper intervention programs.