| Titre : | Hardiness : in the heart of the military |
| Auteurs : | Salvatore Lo bue, Auteur ; Jacques Mylle, Autre ; Taverniers, John, Autre ; Martin Euwema, Autre |
| Type de document : | Books |
| Editeur : | KU Leuven, 2015 |
| Article en page(s) : | 197 p. |
| Langues: | Français |
| Index. décimale : | 306.27 |
| Catégories : |
4.10 Psychologie > Psychologie 6.20 Relations internationales > Sûreté de l'État > Forces armées 6.45 Génie civil, militaire et minier > Génie militaire > Stratégie militaire > Science militaire |
| Tags : | Psychology, Military--Handbooks, manuals, etc. ; War--Psychological aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc. ; Combat--Psychological aspects--Handbooks, manuals, etc. ; Soldiers--Mental health--Handbooks, manuals, etc. ; Military Personnel--psychology ; Military Personnel |
| Résumé : |
The military occupation challenges soldiers physically and mentally. Service members should possess resilience qualities to maintain their health and perform optimally despite the high demands they face. This dissertation studies the personality trait hardiness (Kobasa, 1979) as such a quality. The military resilience model (Kamphuis et al., 2012) offers anoverview of the relevance of hardiness in the different phases of the military career (such as inflow, basic training, deployment and post-deployment). Our literature review shows a lack of research concerning the two most challenging phases of the military life: the basic training and the deployment in military operations. Also, our review highlighted a long-lasting debate about the dimensionality of hardiness. Two modelsare currently competing to explain the underlying structure of hardiness: the dual-process model (Sinclair & Tetrick, 2000) and the three-faceted hierarchical model (Hystad et al., 2010). Hence, this dissertation intends to address the military relevance of hardiness and its dimensionality. Therefore, we conducted four empirical studies. Study1. In a longitudinal design including 233 infantry recruits, we showed that the hardiest participants were more likely to stay involved in the basic training in comparison with their less hardy counterparts who dropped out earlier. Study 2. This cross-sectional study including 252 deployed soldiers indicates a positive association between hardiness and workengagement, and a negative relation between hardiness and burnout. Study 3. In this study, we intended to overcome the cross-sectional nature of the results reported in the previous study. In a longitudinal design including 82 service members, our results show that the level of hardiness measured prior deployment was negatively related to the level of burnout during deployment. Study 4. In our final study, we investigated the dimensionality of hardiness. A large sample (n = 1157) of military candidates completed a questionnaire made of the four most military-relevant hardiness scales. Based on the results, we developed a new model for hardiness. We propose to define and measure hardiness as a composite of two distinct domains (dispositional resilience and dispositional vulnerability) that are both hierarchical and composed of three facets. Toconclude, we address three aspects: 1) the organizational benefits of hardiness-based selection; 2) the implications of the dual-process hierarchical model in hardiness theory and research; 3) five practical implications of hardiness theory to promote military resilience.
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| Code-barres | Cote | Support | Localisation | Section | Disponibilité |
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| 311385 | 306.27 LOB H | Book | Royal Military Academy | Bibliothèque ERM | Disponible |
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 Lo Bue, S. (2015). Hardiness in the Heart of the Military (1) Adobe Acrobat PDF |
