TY - JOUR
T1 - Hardiness and health among women with rheumatoid arthritis
AU - Okun, Morris A.
AU - Zautra, Alex J.
AU - Kurpius, Sharon
N1 - Funding Information:
Ackno~,ledgemenu-This research was supported through grants from Arizona State University’s small grants program and Harrington Arthritis Research Center, Phoenix, Arizona. The authors wish to thank Suzanne Ouellette Kobasa for providing and scoring the hardiness scale and Sanford Roth and Janson Emmanuel for their assistance in conducting the study and analyzing the blood data. Portions of this paper were presented at the Gerontological Society Meetings, Chicago, IL, November, 1986. All correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to Morris A. Okun, Division of Psychology in Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ U.S.A.
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PY - 1988
Y1 - 1988
N2 - The relations among hardiness (and its components) and demographic variables, objective health, disability, and perceived health were investigated for 33 women with rheumatoid arthritis. Hardiness and demographic variables were measured once while objective health, disability, and perceived health were measured at three monthly intervals. Hardiness and/or component scores were significantly (P < 0.05) related to age and to employment status but were unrelated to education and to marital status. The control dimension of hardiness was positively correlated with the average percentage of circulating T-cells (r = 0.38, P < 0.05), and with average perceived health compared to one's same age peers (r = 0.53, P < 0.01). Hardiness appears to be a useful construct for understanding adaptation to rheumatoid arthritis, and studies of patients with chronic diseases can shed light on the precursors and consequences of hardiness.
AB - The relations among hardiness (and its components) and demographic variables, objective health, disability, and perceived health were investigated for 33 women with rheumatoid arthritis. Hardiness and demographic variables were measured once while objective health, disability, and perceived health were measured at three monthly intervals. Hardiness and/or component scores were significantly (P < 0.05) related to age and to employment status but were unrelated to education and to marital status. The control dimension of hardiness was positively correlated with the average percentage of circulating T-cells (r = 0.38, P < 0.05), and with average perceived health compared to one's same age peers (r = 0.53, P < 0.01). Hardiness appears to be a useful construct for understanding adaptation to rheumatoid arthritis, and studies of patients with chronic diseases can shed light on the precursors and consequences of hardiness.
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U2 - 10.1016/0191-8869(88)90035-9
DO - 10.1016/0191-8869(88)90035-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:38249032493
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 9
SP - 101
EP - 107
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 1
ER -