Gayton Scott D, Kehoe E James
Australian Army, Tobruk Lines, Holsworthy, NSW 2173, Australia.
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Matthews Building, Room 903, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
Mil Med. 2015 Feb;180(2):151-7. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-14-00181.
For entry into the Australian Army Special Forces (SF), applicants undergo a barrage of strenuous physical and psychological assessments. Despite this screening, subsequent attrition rates in the first weeks of initial selection courses are typically high, and entry testing results have had limited success for predicting who will complete these courses. An SF applicant's character is often thought to be a decisive factor; however, this claim has remained untested. Accordingly, SF applicants (N = 115) were asked to rank themselves on 24 character strengths at the start of the selection process. Successful applicants (n =18) assigned their top ranks to team worker (72%), integrity (67%), and persistence (50%). Applicants (n = 31) who did not include any of those three strengths in their top ranks all failed to complete the selection process. In contrast, successful versus unsuccessful applicants did not discernibly differ on physical assessments and a written test. Results are discussed with respect to their implications for enhancing the assessment of SF applicants.
想要加入澳大利亚陆军特种部队（SF）的申请者需要接受一系列高强度的身体和心理评估。尽管有这样的筛选，但在初始选拔课程的头几周，后续的淘汰率通常很高，而且入学测试结果在预测谁能完成这些课程方面成效有限。人们通常认为特种部队申请者的性格是一个决定性因素；然而，这一说法尚未得到验证。因此，在选拔过程开始时，特种部队申请者（N = 115）被要求对自己的24种性格优势进行排名。成功的申请者（n = 18）将团队合作精神（72%）、正直（67%）和毅力（50%）排在前几位。在排名中没有将这三种优势中的任何一种列为前几位的申请者（n = 31）都未能完成选拔过程。相比之下，成功申请者和未成功申请者在体能评估和笔试方面没有明显差异。本文将讨论这些结果对改进特种部队申请者评估的启示。
