Anxiety, trust, leadership, communication and stress

Abstract

les of an entire cohort of Danish of fi cer cadets (n ¼ 190) and a large (n ¼ 1,568) Danish population-representative sample to explore a new network-organizational paradigm which has come to the fore in military leadership and of fi cer recruitment. By comparing of fi cer cadets to civilians using a three-level matching procedure, fi nding that the pool from which future military leaders are selected, the military cadets, are less neurotic, more extraverted and somewhat more conscientious than their civilian counterparts, traits which fi t with the core requirements of traditional military leadership. The results indicate that cadets are no less open or agreeable than their civilian peers, traits that are related to a balancing towards the network-organizational paradigm. In the fourth article of this issue “ Parent-child communication about emotions during SIBS - a joint intervention for siblings and parents of children with chronic disorders ” Yngvild Bjartveit Haukeland, Krister Westlye Fjermestad, Svein Mossige and Torun Marie Vatne examined parent-sibling communication during SIBS by describing: 1) Sibling-selected dialogue topics; 2) Parental responses to siblings ’ emo-tional expressions, and 3) Associations between responses and demographics and parental psychological distress. The results show that parents mostly provided space for further disclosure of siblings ’ experiences ( M ¼ 66.9%) and in average, 41.9% of parental responses were exploring, 16.4% were listening, and 8.5% were validating. In the fi fth and fi nal article “ Transgender and Gender Non-conforming People ’ s Adaptive Coping Responses to Minority Stress: A Framework Synthesis ” Greg Smith, Noelle Robertson and Sue Cotton apply the “ Minority Stress Model ” and sources of gender af fi rmation which both highlight the impact of social oppression and provide useful means to understand how TGNC (Transgender and gender nonconforming) people can develop their resilience and what may contribute to dif-ferent ways of coping. The article consists of a review, which sought to better understand TGNC individuals ’ opportunities for gender af fi rmation through their experiences of coping with minority stress. A systematic search yielded nine studies reporting qualitative data related to adaptive coping. The fi ndings in the article augment established models and con-cepts with the delineation of coping responses for TGNC individuals that can support gender af fi rmation and mitigate minority stress.