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A Short Hardiness Scale

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This paper presents a short, 15-item scale for measuring

personality hardiness. Personality hardiness has been found to
be a stress/health moderator in a wide range of studies. Still,
there are problems with its measurement. The present 15-item
scale has excellent psychometric properties, and has demonstrated
validity with several samples including soldiers exposed to
combat Stressors, and Army Special Forces candidates.

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This paper presents a short, 15-item scale for measuring
personality Hardiness. Personality Hardiness has been found to
be a stress/health moderator in a wide range of studies. Still,
investigators who wish to include Hardiness in their research
have been hampered by the lack of an accepted, standard tool for
measuring it. This 15-item scale includes positively as well as
negatively keyed items covering the three conceptually important
Hardiness facets of Commitment, Control and Challenge. It shows
excellent psychometric properties, including Cronbach's alpha
coefficients ranging from .70 to .77 for the facets, to .83 for
the overall scale. This scale has demonstrated appropriate
criterion-related and predictive validity in several samples,
w
ith respect both to health and performance under high-stress
conditions. Notably, scores on this hardiness measure are
predictive of illness/symptom indicators and health behaviors in
a large group (N=787) of men and women Army Reservists mobilized
for the Gulf War. Also, as hardiness theory would predict, Army
Special Forces candidates who score high on this measure are more
likely to succeed in a rigorous and highly stressful selection
course.

Presented at the July 1995 Annual convention of the American

Psychological Society, New York, NY.

The views of the author do not necessarily reflect those of the

Department of the Army, or the Department of Defense (para 4-3,
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