McLarnon Matthew J W, Rothstein Mitchell G, King Gillian A
Bissett School of Business, Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada.
DAN Department of Management and Organizational Studies, Western University, London, Canada.
Mil Psychol. 2021 Apr 1;33(2):104-114. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2021.1897492. eCollection 2021.
Military service can include numerous adverse events. As such, resiliency has been considered as a means of potentially helping active-duty personnel face adversity and be better prepared for the demands of military service. However, research in military contexts has been hindered by use of disparate conceptualizations, definitions, and measures of resiliency. To provide some resolution to these inconsistencies, we use a comprehensive, theoretically based model of resiliency to explore how self-regulation processes contributed to Soldiers' negative affect and self-perceived effectiveness. We hypothesized that self-regulation (comprising distinct affective, behavioral, and cognitive processes) increments prediction of Soldiers' outcomes over and above trait-based resiliency protective factors. Using a sample of active-duty military personnel, cognitive self-regulation and affective self-regulation incremented the prediction of negative affect and self-perceived Soldier effectiveness, respectively, over and above trait-based protective factors. These results support the use of a comprehensive model and measure of resiliency, which may enable greater consistency across future research endeavors. As these results validated the links between self-regulation and post-adversity outcomes, this study provides a basis for developing new resiliency training programs. Additional implications for theory and continued research on resiliency in military contexts are discussed.
军事服役可能包括众多不良事件。因此，心理韧性被视为一种可能帮助现役人员面对逆境并更好地应对军事服役需求的方式。然而，军事背景下的研究受到心理韧性概念化、定义和测量方法不一致的阻碍。为了解决这些不一致问题，我们使用一个基于理论的全面心理韧性模型来探讨自我调节过程如何影响士兵的负面影响和自我效能感。我们假设自我调节（包括不同的情感、行为和认知过程）在基于特质的心理韧性保护因素之上，增加了对士兵结果的预测。通过对现役军事人员的抽样研究，认知自我调节和情感自我调节分别在基于特质的保护因素之上，增加了对负面影响和自我效能感的预测。这些结果支持使用全面的心理韧性模型和测量方法，这可能使未来的研究更加一致。由于这些结果验证了自我调节与逆境后结果之间的联系，本研究为开发新的心理韧性训练计划提供了基础。文中还讨论了该研究对军事背景下心理韧性理论和持续研究的其他影响。
