A study of hardiness personality in relation to resilience, occupational stress and job commitment among primary school teachers

Pages: 391-394
Parul Sharma, Pardeep Kumar, and Vivek Bhuchar (Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab )

The present world is a world of ample of opportunities to grow and people around always look for growth here and there. The personality here plays an important role in grabbing the opportunities and make our self the best and to compete in the outer world. The hardiness personality is a type of personality which focuses mainly on the challenge ignoring the stressors. The present study is about studying the hardiness personality and looking its relation with the resilience, occupational stress and job commitment. A sample of 100 (n = 100) primary school teachers were taken from different schools within tricity, that is, Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali. Four tools namely, Singh Psychological Hardiness Scale by Arun Singh (2008); Resilience Scale by Wagnild and Young (1993); Occupational Stress Scale by Srivastava and Singh (1984); and Job Commitment Scale by Mishra and Srivastava (2001) were administered on the sample for the data collection. The Correlation is used as a statistics to study the relationship among all variables. It can be concluded from the present study that teachers who are high on hardiness personality are also high on resilience. The teachers who are high on hardiness personality have low level of occupational stress and also teachers who are hardy in nature have high levels of commitment.