The Importance of Resiliency in Daily Living | p. 1 |
The Naturally Stressful Nature of the Personal Development Process | p. 1 |
We Live in the Centuries of Change | p. 3 |
The Ongoing Need for Thriving Under Stress | p. 5 |
References | p. 6 |
Personal Hardiness as the Basis for Resilience | p. 7 |
Hardiness as the Pathway to Resilience | p. 8 |
The Longitudinal Study of Stress at Illinois Bell Telephone | p. 10 |
Hardiness Helps Turn Stresses into Growth Opportunities | p. 13 |
References | p. 16 |
Thirty Years of Hardiness Validational Research and Practice | p. 19 |
Hardiness Emerges as a Distinctive Pattern of Attitudes and Strategies | p. 19 |
Hardiness Improves Health Under Stress | p. 21 |
Hardiness Improves Performance and Conduct Under Stress | p. 22 |
The Relative Effectiveness of Hardiness and Other Individual Characteristics | p. 24 |
Where Does Hardiness Come From? | p. 25 |
References | p. 26 |
Hardiness Assessment and Training | p. 29 |
The Development and Effectiveness of Hardiness Assessment | p. 29 |
The Initial Development of Hardiness Training | p. 31 |
The First Hardy Coping Step is Situational Reconstruction | p. 32 |
The Second Hardy Coping Step is Focusing | p. 33 |
The Third Hardy Coping Step is Compensatory Self-Improvement | p. 34 |
The Previous Steps Lead to Formulating and Carrying out an Action Plan | p. 35 |
The Effectiveness of the Initial Form of Hardiness Training | p. 37 |
The Further Development of the HardiTraining Program | p. 37 |
The Effectiveness of the HardiTraining Program | p. 38 |
Becoming a Certified Hardiness Trainer | p. 40 |
References | p. 41 |
Raising Hardy Children | p. 43 |
The Hardy Attitudes | p. 44 |
Supportive Early Interactions Build the Hardy Attitude of Commitment | p. 44 |
Early Environments Permitting Mastery Build the Hardy Attitude of Control | p. 45 |
Ongoing Changes Construed as Richness Build the Hardy Attitude of Challenge | p. 46 |
The Hardy Strategies | p. 47 |
Parents Need to Emphasize Problem-Solving Coping | p. 48 |
Parents Need to Emphasize Supportive Social Interactions | p. 49 |
Parents Need to Emphasize Taking Care of Oneself | p. 49 |
In all this, Parents Need to Admire, Respect, and Love Their Young | p. 50 |
References | p. 51 |
Applying Hardiness to Teaching and Counseling | p. 53 |
Teaching Hardiness in Schools | p. 53 |
Obtaining the School's Approval for the Hardiness Course | p. 54 |
Effectiveness of the Hardiness Training Course on Students | p. 55 |
Teaching Hardiness in Counseling | p. 56 |
Conformism and Existential Sickness | p. 57 |
Specifics of Hardiness Counseling | p. 58 |
Case Examples from Hardiness Counseling | p. 60 |
References | p. 62 |
Hardiness as a Relationship and Work Facilitator | p. 65 |
The Changing Nature of Relationships and Work Situations | p. 65 |
The Importance of Learning Through Failures as Well as Successes | p. 66 |
Deepening Significant Relationships into Intimacy | p. 67 |
Engaging in Fulfilling Work by Learning all the Time | p. 68 |
Neither Relationships Nor Work Settings Need Last Forever | p. 68 |
References | p. 69 |
How Hardiness Facilitates Functioning in Military and Safety Roles | p. 71 |
The Special Importance of Hardiness | p. 72 |
Relevant Hardiness Research | p. 74 |
How Military and Safety Personnel Need to Function in Times of Terrorism | p. 78 |
References | p. 78 |
The Importance of Hardy Organizations | p. 79 |
How Organizations Thrive in Turbulent Times Through Hardiness | p. 80 |
Culture, Climate, Structure, and Personnel of Hardy Organizations | p. 80 |
What are the Advantages of Hardi Organizations? | p. 82 |
What are the Disadvantages of Organizations that are not Hardy? | p. 83 |
Can Hardi Organizations Be Built Simply Through a "Greening Effect"? | p. 84 |
Assessing and Developing the Hardiness of Organizations | p. 84 |
References | p. 85 |
The Psychology of Possibility | p. 87 |
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