Hardiness beats resilience for stress and health
Hardiness, growing from stress, is more protective than resilience, more than 30 years of research shows.
More than 30 years of research shows hardiness, the ability to grow from stress, is more protective than resilience, which is merely bouncing back. People higher in hardiness have better physical and mental wellbeing, stronger immune responses to stress and faster recovery from serious illness.
Hardiness can be taught. The traditional "man up" culture actively harms health, discouraging the connection hardiness requires.
Dr Paul Taylor presents this at tomorrow's Menslink Business Breakfast.
- 30+ years
- Research span
- Dr Paul Taylor
- Expert
- Menslink Business Breakfast, Canberra
- Location
Why it mattersIf hardiness is learnable, men don't have to accept their current coping patterns as fixed or permanent.
AustraliaHardiness research could reshape how Australian workplaces and emergency services train personnel for high-pressure roles like policing and first response.
✓ Claims checked against the source and corrected before publish. checked 4 d ago
