{"title":"Self-distancing is positively related to higher scores during U.S. Army (USA) Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) advanced leadership training.","authors":"Walter J Sowden, Neil A Lewis, Rachell L Jones","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2480481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2480481","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The extent to which self-regulatory tendencies predict military leadership ability is unknown. In the present study, we assessed the relationship between these tendencies and military leadership competency. During a United States Army (USA) Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Advanced Camp capstone leader development and assessment course, 234 cadets completed a survey measuring five self-regulatory tendencies: self-control, cognitive reappraisal, emotional suppression, grit, and temporal self-distancing. Overall camp performance scores were used to assess and quantify leadership ability. Non-parametric bivariate correlations and regression analyses revealed that only cognitive reappraisal and temporal self-distancing significantly correlated with leadership ability. Notably, temporal self-distancing emerged as the most robust predictor of effective leadership. The present findings suggest that strategies for improving specific self-regulatory tendencies may enhance military leadership effectiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contribution of social support and partner communication quality to mental health among combatants' partners.","authors":"Liat Kulik, Anita Zorchinsky","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2470480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2470480","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated the relationship between social support and communication quality among combatants and their partners, and the partners' mental health during Israel's Swords of Iron War against Hamas. Mental health was assessed through emotional, social, and psychological dimensions. Communication quality was evaluated by assessing both positive and negative aspects of electronic and face-to-face channels. The sample included 201 women in various relationship statuses with men who were recruited as combatants: married, cohabiting, and in a stable relationship. Most women reported positive electronic and face-to-face communication with their partners during the war. Nonetheless, nearly 20% mentioned an increase in the negative aspects of face-to-face communication compared to pre-war conditions. Negative communication correlated with poorer psychological health. No direct link was found between positive communication and mental health. However, an indirect relationship was observed, with perceived social support serving as a mediator. The psychological dimension ranked highest among the mental health dimensions, followed by the social dimension, with the lowest ranking found for the emotional dimension.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143663942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Military PsychologyPub Date : 2025-03-04Epub Date: 2024-02-20DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2309897
David E Reed, Elizabeth A Lehinger, Briana Cobos, Rhonda M Williams, Cindy A McGeary, Donald D McGeary
{"title":"The mediating role of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in pain cognitions among Veterans with chronic pain.","authors":"David E Reed, Elizabeth A Lehinger, Briana Cobos, Rhonda M Williams, Cindy A McGeary, Donald D McGeary","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2309897","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2309897","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are highly prevalent among Veterans with chronic pain. Considerable research has examined the intersection of chronic pain and PTSD symptoms. However, it remains unclear whether changes in PTSD may potentially serve a mechanistic role in improving unhelpful pain cognitions for individuals with chronic pain. The present research contributes to the foundational knowledge by addressing this question. Baseline data from a randomized controlled trial targeting pain-related disability for Veterans (<i>n</i> = 103; mean age 43.66; <i>SD</i> = 10.17) with musculoskeletal pain and depression and/or PTSD symptoms were used. Cross-sectional mediation analyses showed that PTSD symptoms mediated the relationship between pain severity and pain catastrophizing, and between pain severity and pain acceptance. After controlling for depression, the mediation involving pain catastrophizing remained significant, while the mediation for pain acceptance did not. Although limitations exist, results point to several treatment recommendations, including ensuring that depressive affect, PTSD-specific symptoms, and attention to both body and mind are included in treatment. Results also provide preliminary evidence for examining these associations longitudinally to improve our understanding of this population and corresponding treatment recommendations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"95-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849920/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139913058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Military PsychologyPub Date : 2025-03-04Epub Date: 2024-03-05DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2322901
F Eric Robinson, David Grimm, Dain Horning, Jamie C Gorman, Jennifer Winner, Christopher W Wiese
{"title":"An automated content-based measure of closed loop communication among critical care air transport teams.","authors":"F Eric Robinson, David Grimm, Dain Horning, Jamie C Gorman, Jennifer Winner, Christopher W Wiese","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2322901","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2322901","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Successful teamwork is essential to ensure critical care air transport (CCAT) patients receive effective care. Despite the importance of team performance, current training methods rely on subjective performance assessments and do not evaluate performance at the team level. Researchers have developed the Team Dynamics Measurement System (TDMS) to provide real-time, objective measures of team coordination to assist trainers in providing CCAT aircrew with feedback to improve performance. The first iteration of TDMS relied exclusively on communication flow patterns (i.e., who was speaking and when) to identify instances of various communication types such as closed loop communication (CLC). The research presented in this paper significantly advances the TDMS project by incorporating natural language processing (NLP) to identify CLC. The addition of NLP to the existing TDMS resulted in greater accuracy and fewer false alarms in identifying instances of CLC compared to the previous flow-based implementation. We discuss ways in which these improvements will facilitate instructor feedback and support further refinement of the TDMS.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"168-174"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849946/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140028488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Military PsychologyPub Date : 2025-03-04Epub Date: 2024-02-28DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2319014
Carra S Sims, Thomas E Trail, Jessie Coe
{"title":"Predicting soldier retention from army spouse characteristics and attitudes: Soldiering on with spouse support.","authors":"Carra S Sims, Thomas E Trail, Jessie Coe","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2319014","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2319014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The U.S. Army has a vested interest in retaining the skilled personnel necessary to achieve its mission and strategic goals. A wealth of research has investigated the retention process and what influences service member decisions to stay in the military. While families are an important influence on soldier retention decisions, research on the mechanism by which this happens is lacking. This report explores the relationship between spouse attitudes and perceptions, resource use, and soldier retention almost two years later, using a proposed theoretical model. Our results generally support our model, with the important change that resource use and unmet needs and stress were not directly associated with specific attitudes toward staying in the military as we had expected. Instead, the association was accounted for by relationship with general attitudes toward the military. Spouses whose needs were unmet after seeking help from available resources experienced greater stress, and spouse unmet needs and reports of greater stress were associated with worse general attitudes toward the military; worse general attitudes toward the military were associated with less inclination to stay a military family; which in turn predicted soldier turnover almost two years later. As the research in this report shows, providing benefits to military spouses is also associated with a tangible and important outcome for the military: improved service member retention.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"105-116"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849917/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139983278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Candice Presseau, Ian C Fischer, Frances M Aunon, Aliya R Webermann, Robert H Pietrzak
{"title":"Differentiating U.S. military women veterans with suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and no suicidal ideation or attempts.","authors":"Candice Presseau, Ian C Fischer, Frances M Aunon, Aliya R Webermann, Robert H Pietrzak","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2025.2472558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08995605.2025.2472558","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study leveraged data from a representative sample of U.S. women veterans to investigate factors that differentiate women veterans who report lifetime suicidal ideation (SI), suicidal ideation and suicidal attempt(s) (SI/SA), and no SI/SA. We examined sociodemographic, military, and other mental and medical health characteristics as potential risk indicators differentiating women veterans with only SI, SI/SA, and no SI/SA. We used multinomial logistic regression analyses and post-hoc relative important analyses to determine the relative contribution of significant variables. Relative to women veterans with SI only, those with SI/SA reported more adverse childhood experiences, and were more likely to screen positive for alcohol and substance use disorders. Relative to women veterans with no SI/SA, those with SI only had greater cumulative trauma burden, and were more likely to screen positive for major depressive disorder and disability in activities of daily living (ADLs) and/or instrumental ADLs. The present study's determination of indicators that differentiate suicide risk groups of women veterans underscores the value of a nuanced approach to operationalizing suicide-related outcomes. The results may serve as a foundation for additional research and support targeted prevention and intervention efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143557337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'Hidden' anger as a risk factor for operational health: An exploratory approach among French military personnel.","authors":"Anaïs Marmuse, Jean-Baptiste Billaud, Sandrine Jacob, Cécile Vigier, Céline Ramdani, Marion Trousselard","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2324645","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2324645","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Military personnel are repeatedly exposed to multiple stressors, and are sometimes characterized by high levels of anger. Evidence suggests that this anger can become dysfunctional, and impact the health status of populations chronically exposed to stress. In particular, rumination (understood as perseverative thoughts about a past event), provides a theoretical framework for investigating how anger may impact stress regulation abilities in military personnel declared fit for deployment. This exploratory study aimed therefore to examine the impact of the anger profile on psychological suffering in terms of burnout and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), along with the reactivity of the autonomic nervous system, measured as cardiac variability. One hundred and seventeen French soldiers were tested before deployment to Operation BARKHANE. Anger rumination, burnout, and PTSD symptoms were assessed using questionnaires, and cardiac variability was measured as the questionnaires were completed. The results revealed two profiles related to anger trait and anger rumination. Burnout and PTSD scores were higher among military personnel with high levels of anger trait and rumination, and this group also had lower parasympathetic activity and flexibility after completing the questionnaires. These results suggest that there may be a link between an angry profile and psychological suffering, notably burnout and PTSD. Rumination could be involved in this link, as it is associated with poor adaptation to stress in a military context. Prospective researches including post-deployment will establish whether this ruminative response can account for the relationship between problematic anger, stress regulatory capacities and psychological health in military populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"148-158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849923/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140022232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Military PsychologyPub Date : 2025-03-04Epub Date: 2024-03-20DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2324622
Stefan Tribbels, Moritz Michels
{"title":"Validity and effectiveness of interrogation techniques: A meta-analytic review.","authors":"Stefan Tribbels, Moritz Michels","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2324622","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2324622","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The gathering of information through the use of interrogation techniques in the context of <i>human intelligence</i> (HUMINT) has a long and elusive history within applied settings of law enforcement and the military and civilian intelligence/counterterrorism community. However, psychological research has yet to catch up to systematically address pressing matters regarding the validity and effectiveness of common interrogation methods and a conceptual framework for relevant psychological factors. A promising, comprehensive contribution is the <i>Taxonomy of Interrogation Methods</i> (ToIM), which aims to integrate multiple approaches within the field of interrogation. In this paper, we utilized the ToIM model as a foundation for a meta-analytic review on the validity and effectiveness of interrogation techniques. We systematically integrated the existing evidence from 60 studies in order to determine which techniques from six domains of the ToIM produce valuable information. The results indicate that <i>Rapport and Relationship Building</i>, <i>Presentation of Evidence</i> and <i>Cognitive Facilitation</i> (an additional domain beyond the ToIM) are valid approaches to optimize both the amount of information gathered as well as its accuracy. The evidence is insufficient to conclude the effectiveness of techniques from the other four domains. Overall, the results are in line with the general notion in the field that a positive relationship with a suspect/source is the key to gather valuable information.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"127-137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849930/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140175551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Military PsychologyPub Date : 2025-03-04Epub Date: 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2319522
Kathy Michaud, Kheana Barbeau-Julien, Michael Slinger
{"title":"Transformational leadership, well-being, morale, and readiness: The mediating role of empowerment.","authors":"Kathy Michaud, Kheana Barbeau-Julien, Michael Slinger","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2319522","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2319522","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transformational leadership is embedded in the value system of the Canadian military ethos. Research suggests that transformational leadership can be viewed as a form of empowering leadership facilitating empowered psychological states among their followers, which in turn, enhances their performance, wellbeing, and engagement. The current study examined the associations between transformational leadership and Canadian Armed Forces members' psychological distress, morale, and pre-deployment readiness and the mediating role of psychological empowerment in these relationships. A path analysis model of the data collected through a pre-deployment survey completed by Canadian Armed Force (CAF) members (<i>N</i> = 2,391) revealed that transformational leadership was associated with lower psychological distress and greater morale and these relationships were partly explained by increased feelings of empowerment, namely higher levels of autonomy, competence, and meaning. Furthermore, transformational leadership was also associated with higher perceptions of pre-deployment readiness, and this was partly explained by increased feelings of meaning and competence. The results of this research suggest that transformational leadership is an effective strategy to bolster psychological resources and readiness in the CAF.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"117-126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849952/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139931920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Military PsychologyPub Date : 2025-03-04Epub Date: 2024-03-04DOI: 10.1080/08995605.2024.2324644
Sara E Vargas, Kade Thornton, Colby Norris, Galen Gist, Madison F Clark, Leslie Ramirez, Melissa Guillen, Kate M Guthrie, Ryan R Landoll
{"title":"Sexual and reproductive health in military settings: A qualitative study.","authors":"Sara E Vargas, Kade Thornton, Colby Norris, Galen Gist, Madison F Clark, Leslie Ramirez, Melissa Guillen, Kate M Guthrie, Ryan R Landoll","doi":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2324644","DOIUrl":"10.1080/08995605.2024.2324644","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mission readiness is critical to the operational success of the United States (US) military and includes having a healthy and fit fighting force. Service members and their dependents have access to a wide range of sexual and reproductive health services with no out-of-pocket costs. Despite this access, negative outcomes such as sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancy persist. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted with service members and stakeholders (e.g. medical providers). Interviews explored the individual, interpersonal, organizational, and institutional factors that inform sexual norms, behaviors, and healthcare experiences in the US military. Interview transcripts were coded manually; data were summarized for themes related to unique aspects of military culture and healthcare affecting sexual and reproductive health. Twenty-five (25) service members and 15 stakeholders completed interviews. Four themes emerged: 1) despite free access, both general and military-specific barriers to sexual and reproductive healthcare persist; 2) general and military-specific cultural norms apply to sexual behavior and care seeking; 3) sexual and reproductive health-related norms can be perceived as confusing and contradictory within the military; and 4) resources addressing sexual assault are ubiquitous in military settings, but resources addressing prevention of STIs and unintended pregnancy are limited. Both general and military-specific norms, behavior, and healthcare experiences need to be considered in clinical care, public health campaigns, and other efforts to promote sexual and reproductive health in military settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":18696,"journal":{"name":"Military Psychology","volume":" ","pages":"138-147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11849916/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140022233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}