Steven Stein

• Ph.D.
• CEO at Multi-Health Systems

Previous research shows that psychological hardiness is an important factor contributing to stress resilience in individuals. Of the various instruments available to measure hardiness, the most commonly used is the Dispositional Resilience Scale (DRS). Despite its demonstrated utility, the DRS-15 still has a number of serious limitations, including...

This article explains how leaders can increase hardiness in their organizations, helping the workforce to deal positively with stress

Hardiness looks into the minds of people who respond well to stressful situations. These resilient individuals have the power to achieve their relationship and career goals and to quickly recover from unforeseen setbacks. Over decades of research, authors Steven J. Stein and Paul T. Bartone have identified the three personality features that such p...

The EQ Leader provides an evidence-based model for exceptional leadership, and a four-pillar road-map for real-world practice. Data collected from thousands of the world's best leaders—and their subordinates—reveals the keys to success: authenticity, coaching, insight, and innovation. By incorporating these methods into their everyday workflow, the...

Emotional intelligence (EI) refers to the ability to perceive, manage, evaluate, and use emotions. Broadly speaking, emotional intelligence addresses the emotional, personal, social, and survival dimensions of intelligence, which are often more important for daily functioning than the more traditional cognitive aspects of intelligence. The concept...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the emotional intelligence (EI) scores of two high profile executive groups in comparison with the general population. Also the study aims to investigate the executive group's EI scores in relation to various organizational outcomes such as net profit, growth management, and employee management and re...

This article examines the use of computers in conducting diagnostic interviews with emotionally disturbed children and their parents. Some of the literature describing the benefits of computerised interviews with adults was reviewed. Advantages mentioned include more complete information, standardised data collection, improved patient attitudes, an...

The proprietary and cutting-edge research carried out by the author led to outcomes that shred new light on management practice and strategy. The 7 KEYS presented in this book, when implemented, will produce immediate results and long-term enhanced performance.

With the implementation of HIPAA and the new APA Ethics Code the negative consequences of releasing test data to non-psychologists are not adequately addressed. From the perspective of test publishers, release of test data to non-psychologists both compromises the copyright and intellectual property interests involved and leads to the opportunity t...

Two studies are reported which compare more and less successful account officers (debt collectors) in terms of their emotional intelligence, measured using the BarOn Emotional Quotient Inventory. The findings support the view that higher levels of emotional intelligence lead to enhanced job performance. Implications for selection are considered in...

The psychometric characteristics of the Holden Psychological Screening Inventory (HPSI) were examined with a sample of 1,709 U.S. military personnel (aged 18–61 yrs). Reliability analyses indicate that the HPS1 scales are internally consistent. Item factor analytic procedures support the tridimensional nature of the HPSI and confirm the appropriate...

The influence of anonymous versus identified responding was investigated for 940 male naval personnel responding to the Holden Psychological Screening Inventory, a brief, self-report screening measure of psychopathology. Analyses indicated that identified respondents did not score significantly lower than anonymous respondents on the inventorys var...

This study examined factors related to mental illness in children and adolescents. A survey of all 362 files of child and adolescent patients discharged from a single residential treatment facility in 1961-1962, 1971-1972, and 1978 revealed several major diagnostic trends. The proportion of cases diagnosed as schizophrenic decreased by one-third, t...

Twenty-six couples interested in improving their marital relationships participated in a multi-level behavior based assessment battery. The measures included self-reported, self-monitored, and observed components, all of which were examined for their interrelationships. Test-retest reliability was carried out with six of the couples. Self-reported...

The present study examined the locus of control and the stability dimensions of causal attributions for past heterosexual social experiences in relation to social self-esteem and expectancy for success in interactions with persons of the opposite sex. Two hundred and fifty-four single college male subjects completed (a) a Social Self-Esteem Invento...

What a person does while anticipating a stressor can influence his emotional reactions when confronting it. Janis (1971) has suggested that the "work of worrying" can partially inoculate the person against severe emotional duress once the threat is confronted, and Meichenbaum (1975) has elaborated on this notion by proposing that emotional inoculat...