Developing Mental Toughness

Strategies to Improve Performance, Resilience and Wellbeing in Individuals and Organizations

Peter Clough, Doug Strycharczyk, John Perry

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781398601840
• Edition: 3
• eBook ISBN:
  9781398601857
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

How can individuals and organizations understand and measure mental toughness to deal with stress and challenge, and so improve performance? This fully updated third edition of Developing Mental Toughness provides the answers to unlock this potential.

Tracing its development from sports psychology into the business sector, Developing Mental Toughness provides a reliable psychometric measure to apply at the organizational level. With coverage on how mental toughness relates to other behaviours and can be applied to employability, leadership, performance, creativity, emotional intelligence and motivation, the practical guidance and exercises in this book make it essential reading for academics, managers and coaches alike.

This third edition includes an expansion of the 4Cs model to include concepts on learning orientation and resilience and new chapters on evidence-based practice and using the Mental Toughness Questionnaire (MTQ48) to gain richer self-awareness. Featuring case studies from Deloitte and Ethiad, Developing Mental Toughness is the practical coaching guide for developing capabilities and resilience.

Index

Note: Acronyms and ‘Mc’ are filed as presented; numbers are filed as spelled out. Page locators in italics denote information within a figure or table.

ability 66

absolute fit indicators 45

achievement motivation 93–95

achievement orientation 6–7, 48, 73–77, 78, 93–95

action planning 94–95, 241, 247–48, 250

Adam Smith College 168, 190–92, 194

adherence 219, 220, 221

adolescents 111, 180, 183, 185, 187–88, 202, 223–24

see also young people

affect intensity 130–31

affiliation 94

affirmations 182, 207, 254, 255–56

age, and stress 12

agency 69, 111

agility 138, 142–43

agreeableness 41, 68, 79

alpha waves 206, 231, 289

altruism 176

ambition 140, 143, 175

anchoring 254, 259–60, 264–65, 267

anxiety 38, 73, 113, 116, 141, 224–25, 288, 307

anxiety control 273–90

AP Lockheed 105–06, 151

applied challenge 87–88

applied commitment 74

applied confidence 104

applied control 56

apps 56, 231, 233, 254, 299, 310–11

aspirations 91, 143–44, 152, 168, 198

assertiveness 103, 114, 115, 167, 176, 237

assessment centres 164–65

Atkinson, John 95

attainment 139, 182–84, 188, 193

attendance 13, 77, 188, 193, 232

attentional control 74, 81–82, 111, 230, 291–302

attitude 165, 171, 172–78, 255, 261–62

see also positive attitude

attitude ladder 255, 261–62

attributions 65–66, 153

authenticity 55, 56

balanced challenge 94, 95

behavioural impact, stress 13

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Table of contents

• Praise For Developing Mental Toughness, Third Edition
• Developing Mental Toughness
• Contents
• About the contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 01 Welcome to mental toughness
• 02 A brief history of mental toughness
• 03 Developing the 4 Cs model
• 04 The psychometric debates
• 05 The measures and their psychometric development
• 06 Control
• 07 Commitment
• 08 Challenge
• 09 Confidence
• 10 Independence and interplay
• 11 Mental toughness and its relationships with some key models, ideas and challenges
• 12 Mental toughness and the world of work
• 13 Employability
• 14 Mental toughness and the world of education
• 15 Mental toughness and sport
• 16 Mental toughness and its links to physical and mental health
• 17 Can mental toughness be developed?
• 18 Using the mental toughness model for coaching and mentoring
• 19 Positive thinking
• 20 Visualization
• 21 Anxiety control and relaxation
• 22 Attentional control
• 23 Goal-setting
• 24 Developing people and organizations
• EF References and further reading
• Index