​What is Mental Toughness?
Mental toughness describes how individuals deal mentally with stressors, pressure and challenge. It applies to everything that people do and embraces qualities such as mindset, character, resilience and grit.
Most personality models and measures assess the behavioural aspects of Personality (how we act). Mental Toughness differs in that it assesses something more fundamental – “how we think”. ​
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In other words, why we act and respond emotionally to events. It enables us to understand mindset in a very practical way.
Why is it important?
Being mentally tough brings a variety of benefits for individuals and organisations. The MTQPlus assessment measures mindset on 8 scales – the four C’s and two additional subscales for each.​
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You can see how these traits and factors are structured in the visual on the left, which illustrates how they work together to shape mindset and behaviour.
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Research conducted worldwide has concluded that those with higher levels of mental toughness, as indicated through the MTQPlus measure, enjoy the following:
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Better Performance: explaining up to 25% of the variation in performance in individuals.
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Agility & Positive Behaviour: adoption of more of a “can do” approach which leads to individuals becoming more engaged, more positive, and dealing well with change.
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Greater Wellbeing: more contentment, better stress management and less prone to bullying.
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Increased Aspirations: more ambitious, prepared to manage more risk, along with a stronger willingness to persevere to achieve goals.
How we can help?
MTQPlus assessments have many useful applications for people and organisations in occupations and sectors that are subject to pressures and challenges or wherever performance, behaviour and wellbeing is an issue.
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In partnership with AQR International, we’ve developed Mental Toughness solutions for individuals and teams across industries.
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The questionnaire is online, well validated and takes approximately 15 minutes to complete.​
