How Can We Measure Psychological "Hardiness"? Personal View Survey II: Reliability and Validity Study in a Turkish Sample

Year 2009, Volume: 17 Issue: 1, 1 - 11, 01.03.2009

İ. Motan F. Gençöz

https://doi.org/10.1501/Kriz_0000000288

Abstract

Objective: The aim of the current study is
to study reliability and validity of Turkish
Adaptation of Personal View Survey-II (PVS-II;
Maddi 1987) which is used for measuring hardiness
personality characteristic, having three
sub-scales (Control, Commitment, Challenge)
and 50 items. Method: For this study, 100 university
students were administered four selfreport
measures including PVS-II, Beck
Hopelessness Scale (BHS), and Turkish Ways
of Coping Inventory (WCI). Results: Following
the factor analysis run for the PVS-II, two factors,
namely "Commitment/Control" and "Challenge/Control"
were obtained with high internal
consistency coefficients. Consistent with the
original scale, it includes reverse items and the
higher the scores are, the lower the hardiness
personality characteristic exists. Internal consistencies
of the two factors were obtained as .77
for the Commitment/Control factor and .72 for
the Challenge/Loss of Control factor. Moreover,
the survey revealed significant correlations with
the measures of BHS and WCI. Conclusion:
Although the items of the original Control factor,
distributed between other two factors, this result
supports the multidimensional nature of hardiness
construct. On the other hand, the differences
from the original scale have been significant
preliminary findings for culture-specific
structure of psychological hardiness characteristic
to be questioned. All these findings are discussed
in the light of literature knowledge.

Keywords

Hardiness, Commitment, Control, Challenge, Reliability, Validity

Psikolojik dayanıklılığı nasıl ölçebiliriz?: bir Türk örnekleminde Kişisel Görüşü Ölçeği II’nin geçerlik-güvenirlik çalışması

Abstract

Keywords

Psikolojik dayanıklılıklık, Yükümlülük, Kontrolü elinde tutma, Mücadelecilik, Güvenirlik, Geçerlik

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