Psychological Hardiness Predicts Success in US Army Special Forces Candidates

Bartone, Paul T.; Roland, Róbert; Picano, James J.; Williams, Thomas J.

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2389.2008.00412.x

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“…For men, the Cronbach's alphas for the subscales were .74, 75, and .62 for commitment, control, and challenge, respectively, while for women, the alphas were .73, .73, and .67 for commitment, control, and challenge, respectively. These reliability coefficients are within the range typically reported for the 15-item scale and subscales (usually in the .60-.70 range; e.g., Bartone, Roland, Picano, & Williams, 2008;Britt et al, 2001). Hystad et al (2010) have demonstrated that the DRS can best be represented as a hierarchical structure comprising a general hardiness dimension and three first-order factors corresponding to the sub-dimensions of commitment, control, and challenge.…”

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Exploring Gender Equivalence and Bias in a Measure of Psychological Hardiness

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2012

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One of the most pervasive criticisms found in the hardiness literature concern the question whether the construct is equally important for men and women. Using a multi-group confirmatory factor analytic approach, this question was explored from a more fundamental perspective by examining measurement equivalence across gender in a measure of hardiness, the 15-item Dispositional Resilience Scale Bartone, P. T. (1995). A short hardiness scale. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, New York.]. Although results suggested some non-equivalence related to the control subscale, follow-up analyses examining gender bias in the two non-equivalent items showed that the effect of gender was minimal. The gender effects found indicated that women had a greater tendency to endorse these items compared to men. Given the stringent criteria used to test for equivalence and minimal evidence of bias found, it is concluded that the results largely point to equivalence across gender in the DRS-15.

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Section: The Hardiness Instrumentmentioning

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Exploring Gender Equivalence and Bias in a Measure of Psychological Hardiness

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2012

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“…The psychometric approach to personnel selection is contingent on measurements that are standardised, reliable and valid. Our results adds to the growing body of literature, which suggest that hardiness can be a valuable tool in personnel selection [28]. One of the strengths of using measures of hardiness over general personality questionnaires is the sensitivity to resilience factors [21].…”

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The effect of hardiness on symptoms of insomnia during a naval mission

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Sanden³

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International Maritime Health

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“…Although somewhat low, these reliability estimates are still comparable to estimates found in the literature, usually in the range between .6 and .7 (e.g., Bartone et al, 2008;Britt, Adler, & Bartone, 2001;Hystad, Eid, Laberg, & Bartone, 2011). A mean hardiness score was calculated by averaging the responses to all individual items, resulting in a hardiness score ranging between zero and three, with higher scores indicating higher levels of hardiness.…”

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“…Previous studies have found that hardiness predicts completion of military selection courses in both Norway and the United States (Bartone, Roland, Picano, & Williams, 2008;Hystad et al, 2011), and it is thus possible that a substantial proportion of our participants already had very high levels of hardiness at the start of the three-year training period.…”

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On the Stability of Psychological Hardiness: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

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Olsen²,

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Military Psychology

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This file was dowloaded from the institutional repository Brage NIH -brage.bibsys.no/nih Hystad, S. W., Olsen, O. K., Espevik, R., Säfvenbom, R. (2015). On the stability of psychological hardiness: a three-year longitudinal study.Military Psychology, 27,[155][156][157][158][159][160][161][162][163][164][165][166][167][168].Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.apa.org: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/mil0000069This is the final text version of the article, and it may contain minor differences from the journal's pdf version. (2004) found that officers who were low in hardiness made more erroneous decisions compared with officers high on hardiness during simulated incidents. In military groups, hardiness has been identified as significant moderator of combat-exposure stress (Bartone, 1999(Bartone, , 2000, as well as leader performance (Bartone, Eid, Johnsen, Laberg, & Snook, 2009 Hardiness DevelopmentHardiness training programs have varied in complexity from relatively simple self-paced learning modules to more elaborate approaches that also include teachings on additional factors that can influence healthy and unhealthy reactions to stress. In one of the earliest reported efforts, In sum, there seems to be some empirical evidence suggesting that hardiness may be malleable to the effects of training initiatives. Many studies, however, are somewhat limited in 6 that they have utilized a relatively short time-frame with minimal post-intervention follow-up (for a more complete review, see . Using a short timeframe raises the possibility that some of the increases are learning effects due to test familiarization. In the study by Tierny and Lavelle (1997), for instance, levels of hardiness increased immediately following completion of the training, but returned to baseline levels six months later. Bartone and Hystad (2010) suggest that to create lasting effects, hardiness training may need to include regular follow-ups and re-training over an extended period of time. To the best of our knowledge, no studies so far have longitudinally investigated how individual levels of hardiness are influenced by long-term training interventions. Hardiness Development and Military ExperienceBased on the discussion so far, the aim of this study was to longitudinally examine the showed that individual hardiness levels increased following completion of the training course.

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Psychological Hardiness Predicts Success in US Army Special Forces Candidates

Cited by 209 publications

References 13 publications

Exploring Gender Equivalence and Bias in a Measure of Psychological Hardiness

Exploring Gender Equivalence and Bias in a Measure of Psychological Hardiness

The effect of hardiness on symptoms of insomnia during a naval mission

On the Stability of Psychological Hardiness: A Three-Year Longitudinal Study

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