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The Relationship of Hardiness, Gender, and Stress to Health Outcomes in Adolescents
Author(s) -
Shepperd James A.,
Kashani Javad H.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1991.tb00930.x
Subject(s) - psychology , hardiness (plants) , stress (linguistics) , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics , horticulture , cultivar , biology
The present study examined the relationship between the hardiness components of commitment, control, and challenge, and the experience of physical and psychological symptoms in a sample of 150 (75 male, 75 female) adolescents. A measure of psychosocial stress was included to permit an examination of whether the hardiness components interact with stress in predicting health outcomes. Analyses revealed main effects of stress, gender, and the hardiness components of commitment and control for several of the health measures. More important was the finding of a consistent interaction of stress, gender, and hardiness for several of the health measures. Whereas low‐stress males experienced few physical and psychological symptoms regardless of their levels of commitment and control, high‐stress males experienced more problems when they were low rather than high in either commitment or control. The hardiness components did not interact with stress in the prediction of health outcomes among females.