Hardiness as a predictor of postoperative behavior: A study of patients who have undergone a Total Hip Replacement.

Title: Hardiness as a predictor of postoperative behavior: A study of patients who have undergone a Total Hip Replacement.
Identifier: AAI9000693
identifier: 9000693
Creator: Flanagan, Leo F., Jr.
Contributor: Adviser: Suzanne Ouellette-Kobasa
Date: 1989
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Psychology, Personality | Health Sciences, Medicine and Surgery | Psychology, Physiological
Abstract: This study examined the relationship between the personality variable hardiness and post-operative recovery from elective Total Hip Replacements. Hardiness is composed of the three components commitment, challenge, and control. The study sample consisted of 52 inpatients drawn from a large, urban, orthopaedic hospital. Subjects had elected to undergo a THR as treatment for Degenerative Joint Disease of the hip. The Personal Views Scale (Kobasa, et al, 1985) was used to assess patients' hardiness levels and was administered verbally. Dependent measures were drawn from the data normally recorded in the patients' medical charts.;At least as conceptualized for this study, hardiness has a qualified relationship to length of stay in hospital following surgery, a marginal relationship with complaints made during hospitalization and engagement in physical therapy, and none of the expected positive relationship with general functioning prior to discharge.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.

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