Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
National Centre for Emergency Primary Health Care, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen, Norway.
Scand J Psychol. 2022 Feb;63(1):39-46. doi: 10.1111/sjop.12782. Epub 2021 Oct 22.
The personality disposition hardiness has been shown to be associated with adaptive coping strategies and is considered an important protective factor against development of mental health symptoms. One of the criticisms found in the hardiness literature concerns the question whether the construct is equally important for men and women. Using a prospective design in a moderated mediation model, regression analyses were performed to examine the effect of avoidance coping in the association between hardiness and mental distress. The effect of biological sex was examined in the association between hardiness and avoidance coping. Our sample included 410 civilian personnel employed in a military organization. The results showed that higher hardiness levels were associated with lower reported use of avoidance coping, which in turn was associated with lower levels of distress symptoms. Avoidance coping mediated the effect of hardiness on anxiety symptoms and this indirect effect was not moderated by biological sex. These results indicate that hardiness operates similarly for women and men as a factor influencing mental distress symptoms.
坚韧性人格特质已被证明与适应性应对策略有关，被认为是预防心理健康症状发展的重要保护因素。坚韧性文献中的一个批评涉及这样一个问题，即该结构对男性和女性是否同样重要。本研究采用前瞻性设计和中介调节模型，回归分析检验了回避应对在坚韧性与心理困扰之间的关系中的作用，以及生物性别在坚韧性与回避应对之间的关系中的作用。我们的样本包括在一个军事组织中工作的 410 名文职人员。结果表明，较高的坚韧性水平与较少报告使用回避应对策略相关，而回避应对策略又与较低的困扰症状水平相关。回避应对在坚韧性对焦虑症状的影响中起中介作用，这种间接效应不受生物性别的调节。这些结果表明，坚韧性作为影响心理困扰症状的因素，对女性和男性的作用相似。
