Health Related Hardiness And The Factors Related To It Among College Students

Since American psychologist Kobasa put forward personality of hardiness, study about hardiness has been an active field in the foreign research of personality and healthy psychology. The personality of hardiness is a group of personality particularities that can be used to protect individuals from sudden harm. The perfect structure of personality of hardiness should include three parts at the same time, which are commitment, control and challenge. The research has revised HRHS made by Pollock according to Chinese college students. Meanwhile, the research has also discussed the actuality of healthy hardiness of college students and the relationship between healthy hardiness and life events, way of coping and social support. The main result is following:1.The total score and the score of all dimensions of college students'healthy hardiness are not high, which are lower than that of other people in the backgrounds of China. It shows that the level of college students'healthy hardiness is not high.2.Differences of college students'healthy hardiness exist in sex, grade, city and country and single child or not. The girl students'healthy hardiness is higher than the boy students'and decreases with the increase of age. The college students'from the country is higher than those from the city. The healthy hardiness of non-single child is higher than that of single child. However, the difference does not appear in the students in different majors.3.The difference of college students'life events exists in college students of different levels of healthy hardiness. Healthy hardiness has negative correlation with life events."Health adjustment"and"interpersonal relationship"have certain forecast to the healthy hardiness.4.The difference exists in the college students of different health hardiness when solving problems, turning to others, self-accusing and withdrawing. Correlation and regression show that health hardiness has positive correlation with mature way of coping but negative correlation with immature way of coping. Solving problems, self-accusing, withdrawing and rationalization have forecast to health hardiness.5.College students of different health hardiness have significant differences in objective support, subjective support and the degree of use of support. 6.The forecast model of health status. Life events, mature way of life and health hardiness can forecast the health status directly. Social support does not have direct forecast to health status but it can work indirectly through the influence of health hardiness and mature way of coping. Health hardiness does not only forecast health status directly but also forecast health status indirectly through the influence of mature way of coping.