EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT ATTITUDES TOWARDS HARDINESS IN VARIOUS OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS

Abstract

The aim of the research was to identify the features of explicit and implicit assessments of hardiness and its components obtained for participants whose occupations are associated with risk: security guards, long-distance lorry drivers, footballers from one of the top football league teams; participants with occupations associated with unconditional execution of orders. Measurements were made using specially designed four modifications of the classical IAT and the self-report procedure Bartone’s Dispositional Resilience Scale. The study showed that there are differences in implicit and explicit attitudes towards hardiness and its components in groups of participants from different occupations: most guards and long-distance lorry drivers revealed a negative implicit challenge; the majority of ‘soldiers’ were found to have negative attitudes towards the commitment. The vast majority of long-distance lorry drivers showed matches of the measurements results. The independence of implicit and explicit ‘overall’ attitudes toward hardiness, and their content, is also shown.