Development and validation of the Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire

Psicothema. 2014 May;26(2):207-14. doi: 10.7334/psicothema2013.49.

Abstract

Background: One of the most traditional approaches to the positive study of personality has been the research on Hardiness or Hardy Personality. However, studies about this construct have systematically suffered from a lack of sufficient psychometric guarantees of the measures.

Method: This paper presents the Occupational Hardiness Questionnaire (OHQ), the result of a research line on the subject and its measurement with a total sample of 1,647 participants.

Results: Four studies show the results of exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), consistency, temporal reliability and construct validity.

Conclusions: Results indicate that the OHQ has satisfactory psychometric characteristics and can be used in the study of Occupational Health and in the area of Positive Personality.

Publication types

  • Validation Study

MeSH terms

  • Adaptation, Psychological*
  • Adult
  • Attitude
  • Factor Analysis, Statistical
  • Female
  • Firefighters / psychology*
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nursing Staff / psychology*
  • Perception
  • Personality Inventory*
  • Personnel, Hospital / psychology*
  • Portugal
  • Psychology, Industrial*
  • Resilience, Psychological*
  • Spain
  • Stress, Psychological / psychology*
  • Surveys and Questionnaires*
  • Young Adult