Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:-
Stress is a silent killer. Therefore developing a healthy lifestyle becomes very important.
The mass media, when combined with other health promotion programs, can be an effective tool promoting behaviour change.
Understanding features of party environments may help us devise practical and effective techniques to decrease the amount of alcohol we consume in social situations and reduce the incidence of drunk driving.
Regular and vigorous exercise promotes both physical and psychological health. Starting and maintaining an exercise habit requires that people arrange their environment in a way that supports the desired exercise behaviour and weakens competing behaviours.
Primary prevention involves educating people about the relation between their behaviours and their health, promoting healthy behaviours and directly modifying poor health practices. Secondary prevention strategies emphasize early detection to decrease the severity of illness that is already present.
'Starting and maintaining an exercise habit' is reflective of which kind of personality traits.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Hardiness
Option (1) Hardiness — Correct. Kobasa found that people with high stress but low illness share the personality traits of hardiness, ‘the three Cs’: commitment, control and challenge. Such people have commitment to work, family, hobbies and social life, and control, which is a sense of purpose and direction in life. Starting an exercise habit and keeping it up calls for this very personal commitment and control over one’s own life.
Option (2) Resilience — Incorrect. Resilience is the capacity to ‘bounce back’ in the face of stress and adversity. It shows when a person recovers after a hardship, not in building and keeping a routine.
Option (3) Rational — Incorrect. Rational thinking is a life skill: challenging distorted thinking and irrational beliefs and replacing them with positive thoughts. It is a way of thinking that can be learned, not a personality trait shown by sticking to exercise.
Option (4) Emotional — Incorrect. The word only describes feelings. Keeping up an exercise habit depends on commitment and control, not on a person’s emotions.
NCERT (2025-26): “Stress Resistant Personality : … Recent studies by Kobasa have shown that people with high levels of stress but low levels of illness share three characteristics, which are referred to as the personality traits of hardiness. It consists of ‘the three Cs’, i.e. commitment, control, and challenge. Hardiness is a set of beliefs about oneself, the world, and how they interact. It takes shape as a sense of personal commitment to what you are doing, a sense of control over your life, and a feeling of challenge. Stress resistant personalities have control which is a sense of purpose and direction in life; commitment to work, family, hobbies and social life; and challenge, that is, they see changes in life as normal and positive rather than as a threat.…” |