Assessing Psychological Fitness in the Military – Development of an Effective and Economic Screening Instrument

Abstract

This screening approach is still not applicable to large populations like that of the Bundeswehr, which currently has about 170,000 soldiers but it is limited to deployed combat troops. Classifying psychological fitness allows specialists to differentiate between people in need of special training or additional diagnostic measures and those in need of sustaining their fitness regularly at the earliest possible stage. A follow-up study that is representative of deployed and non-deployed military personnel will examine whether these results can be transferred to the entire Bundeswehr and whether the validity of the interview can be established.

Cognitive Fitness Framework: Towards Assessing, Training and Augmenting Individual-Difference Factors Underpinning High-Performance Cognition

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Influence of COVID-19 on general stress and posttraumatic stress symptoms among hospitalized high-risk patients

“…Routine screening for mental fitness in this high-risk population is recommended, as is the case in the military (Peterson, Park, & Castro, 2011 ; Wesemann et al, 2018a ).…”

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