Nordmo Morten, Sørlie Henrik Ottesen, Lang-Ree Ole Christian, Fosse Thomas Hol
Department of Leadership and Organizational Behavior, BI Norwegian Business School, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
Mil Psychol. 2022 Apr 11;34(6):697-705. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2022.2054658. eCollection 2022.
Psychological hardiness is a set of personality characteristics that is linked to better health, performance, and leadership in demanding environments. Research indicates that candidates who score high on hardiness have an advantage during military leadership selection. In this study, we deconstruct the effect of hardiness into three separate measures of leadership performance: interview performance, field performance, and the probability of voluntary withdrawal from a challenging field exercise. Additionally, we hypothesize that the dispositional effect of hardiness is partly due to an indirect effect of contextual self-efficacy beliefs regarding military leadership ability. We test our hypotheses in a sample of candidates seeking admission to officer training in the Norwegian Armed Forces during a three-week selection process. The results confirm that hardiness was associated with successful admission and showed that hardy candidates scored somewhat higher on the interview and field exercises and were notably less likely to drop out of the field exercise. Using generalized structural equation modeling and mediation analysis, we find that the effect is partly mediated by self-efficacy beliefs, but the direct effect of hardiness is more pronounced than the indirect effect of self-efficacy. Overall, the results add to the growing body of hardiness as a predictor of military leadership performance and shows that this advantage is partly, but not primarily associated with contextual self-efficacy beliefs.
心理韧性是一组人格特质，与在苛刻环境中的更好健康状况、表现和领导力相关联。研究表明，在韧性方面得分高的候选人在军事领导力选拔中具有优势。在本研究中，我们将韧性的影响分解为领导力表现的三个独立衡量指标：面试表现、实地表现以及从具有挑战性的实地训练中自愿退出的概率。此外，我们假设韧性的性格效应部分归因于关于军事领导能力的情境自我效能信念的间接效应。我们在挪威武装部队军官培训选拔的为期三周的过程中，对寻求录取的候选人样本进行了假设检验。结果证实，韧性与成功录取相关，并且表明有韧性的候选人在面试和实地训练中得分略高，并且明显不太可能退出实地训练。使用广义结构方程模型和中介分析，我们发现这种效应部分由自我效能信念介导，但韧性的直接效应比自我效能的间接效应更为显著。总体而言，这些结果进一步丰富了将韧性作为军事领导表现预测指标的研究，并表明这种优势部分但并非主要与情境自我效能信念相关。
