Psychological hardiness characterizes people who remain healthy under psychosocial stress. The present exploratory study investigates possible links between hardiness and several immune and neuroendocrine markers: IL-6, IL-12, IL-4, IL-10, & neuropeptide-Y. A total of 21 Norwegian navy cadets were studied in the context of a highly stressful military field exercise. Blood samples were collected...

conclusions findings of this study showed the importance of psychological hardiness in maintaining mental health. special attention should be paid to maintaining and improving the mental health of workers in the pars special economic energy zone. one of the main principles involved in the sustainable and integrated development of a company is healthy human resources in all aspects, including ph...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a stressful event that can give rise to psychological difficulties. Now, a wide range of psychosocial interventions for infertile couples has been developed. OBJECTIVE Purpose of this study was to determine the effect of group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to reduce stress, anxiety and depression of women undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (ART). MATERIA...

background & aim: although pregnancy seems to be a pleasant experience in a women’s life, the accompanied physical and psychological changes lead to high levels of stress in mothers. prenatal stress widely affects the physical and mental health of mothers and infants; therefore, adopting appropriate coping strategies are highly required. considering the importance of coping strategies in psycho...

background: infertility is a stressful event that can give rise to psychological difficulties. now, a wide range of psychosocial interventions for infertile couples has been developed. objective: purpose of this study was to determine the effect of group cognitive behavioral therapy (cbt) to reduce stress, anxiety and depression of women undergoing assisted reproductive therapy (art). materials...

The main aims of the study were: to explore the latent structure of the construct of hardiness at Croatian top basketball players and to gain an understanding of the relationship between obtained hardiness dimensions and situation-related efficacy in basketball. Situation efficacy of individual basketball players in top teams is linked to the constellation of a number of relevant anthropologica...

introduction: family has a profound influence on personality traits of child. it also makes changes in mental processes of family members. due to the fact that the absence of one parent or both of them has unpleasant effect on mental growth of children and adolescents, this study is looking for the comparison between parented and unparented adolescents in terms of psychological hardiness . meth...

background: nurses are responsible for maintaining and improving the health and quality of life of patients. therefore, it is important to assess the quality of life of nurses in order to improve it. quality of life is affected by many variables  and among them burnout, perceived social support and psychological hardiness are the leading ones. this study aimed at predicting the quality of life ...