Hardiness Test: Find Your Score about Hardiness

Abstract

Many psychologists believe knowledge will guide one's life. Therefore knowledge about hardiness might be correlate to their own hardiness life. Hardiness [1] is a constellation of personality characteristics that cause an individual more powerful, durable, stable, and optimistic in the face of stress and reduce the negative effects encountered. Thus, the objective of this study is creating hardiness test so one's can learn more about hardiness. The test was conducted with 35 participants. The result showed that most of participants had low understanding (48.5%) and average understanding (51.4%) about hardiness. This result also indicates that people need programs to increase understanding about hardiness using media such as internet.