Work-Relevant Values Strengthen the Stressor–Strain Relation in Elite Army Units

Britt, Thomas W.; Stetz, Melba C.; Bliese, Paul D.

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“…Recent work (e.g., Adler, Castro, & Britt, 2006;Adler, Huffman, Bliese, & Castro, 2005;Bartone, 1999Bartone, , 2006Britt & Bliese, 2003;Britt, Stetz, & Bliese, 2004;Jex, Bliese, Buzzell, & Primeau, 2001;Stetz, Stetz, & Bliese, 2006;Thomas, Adler, & Castro, 2005;Tucker, Sinclair, & Thomas, 2005) highlights just some of the recent focus of military psychologists on stress and its impact in military contexts. Arguably, the military interest in stress and its impact has been a substantive driver of stress-related research for decades.…”

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Psychology in Sports and the Military: Building Understanding and Collaboration Across Disciplines

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2008

Military Psychology

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The goal of this special issue was to identify how the underlying theoretical issues studied in sports psychology might inform research conducted by military psychologists. In the interest of providing the basis for further discussion between these two fields, this commentary highlights several areas discussed in the preceding articles which may inform military research in the behavioral sciences. Further, suggestions are offered for both fields that may lead to additional collaborative opportunities. The recommendations and comments offered cover the domains of expertise development, simulation and training, and team effectiveness among others. This special issue strives to provide the means for cross-disciplinary discussion between sports psychology and military psychology. That these two disciplines should have common and collaborative interests seems intuitive given the commonalities in task and environmental characteristics. Many sports, particularly those practiced in the Olympic Games, have evolved from some of the basic tasks of the military over the centuries. The most evident of these derive from fundamental aspects of warfare such as marksmanship (e.g., rifle, pistol, archery), overcoming physical defenses and obstacles (e.g., pole vault, high jump, long jump, steeplechase), and hand-to-hand combat (e.g., wrestling, judo, boxing). Combat operations have evolved from a focus on major formations to small units (e.g., platoons, squads), which have some similarities to the structures of modern era team sports (e.g., hockey, football). However, one notable difference between these two

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Psychology in Sports and the Military: Building Understanding and Collaboration Across Disciplines

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2008

Military Psychology

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“…The evolution of OIF from a conventional combat operation into a variation of low-intensity conflict (LIC) resulted in many war fighters, particularly Reservists, doing jobs for which they were relatively untrained, such as riot control, arrest procedures, convoy missions, and protection of convoys (Kershaw, 2003). For the war fighter, as for most people, job role clarity and self-engagement reduce stress (Britt & Bliese, 2003;Britt et al, 2004). 7.…”

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Review of Cost-Effective and Practical Methods for Obtaining Individual Indices of Operation Stress for Deployed Military Personnel

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2006

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A

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“…Peters and O'Connor (1980) argued that organizational constraints (factors within an organization that prevent maximum performance) should particularly influence workers with high ability or motivation, as the performance of those workers with low ability or motivation is already at a level unlikely to be affected by further impediments. Britt, Stetz, and Bliese (2004) found that U.S. Army Rangers who reported strong achievement-related values evidenced stronger relationships between job-impeding stressors and measures of morale, psychological health, and job satisfaction. These results support the idea that work-related impediments should have a bigger impact on those individuals who are personally invested in the outcomes of job performance.…”

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“…Britt, Stetz, and Bliese (2004) found that U.S. Army Rangers who reported strong achievement‐related values evidenced stronger relationships between job‐impeding stressors and measures of morale, psychological health, and job satisfaction. These results support the idea that work‐related impediments should have a bigger impact on those individuals who are personally invested in the outcomes of job performance.…”

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Self‐Engagement Magnifies the Relationship Between Qualitative Overload and Performance in a Training Setting¹

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2006

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The present study examined whether personal engagement in a leadership course would predict rated performance for the course, and whether qualitative overload would moderate the relationship. Participants were Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) cadets participating in a 5-week long leadership assessment course. Participants completed measures of qualitative overload (the extent to which they felt they lacked the skills and expertise required for effective performance) and the degree to which they were engaged in the course during the 4 th week. Results revealed that course engagement was a significant predictor of rated leadership performance, even after controlling for the personality variable of conscientiousness. Course engagement interacted with qualitative overload to predict rated performance, indicating that qualitative overload was a stronger predictor of rated performance for those cadets engaged in the course. Discussion of the results focuses on engagement as a predictor of performance, and how work-related impediments matter more for engaged individuals.When individuals are personally engaged in an activity, they should be more likely to exert increased effort in the face of obstacles, and actually perform better than those who are disengaged from an activity (Brown , 1994) and is evident when an individual feels a sense of responsibility for and commitment to a performance domain so that performance matters to the individual (Britt, 1999(Britt, , 2003a(Britt, , 2003b). The triangle model specifies that individuals are most likely to feel personally engaged in an event when the prescriptions governing performance are clear, the individual has personal control over his or her performance, and the performance domain is relevant to the individual's identity (Schlenker et al., 1994).When an individual is personally engaged in an activity, the self-system of that individual is activated, and a part of his or her self-concept is invested in performance. Therefore, engagement in an activity has implications not only for motivation and performance, but also for emotional consequences following the outcome of performance (Britt, 1999(Britt, , 2003b. Personal engagement in an activity should magnify the emotional consequences of succeeding versus failing at a task because performance outcomes have greater implications for the individual's identity. Britt (1999) found that when soldiers reported a high level of engagement in their jobs, their perceived success in their jobs was related more strongly to their reported levels of depression and overall stress. When soldiers reported a relatively low level of job engagement, their perceptions of job success were less related to reported depression and stress (see also Brunstein, Schultheis, & Grassman, 1998).Because the outcomes of performance matter more to individuals who are engaged in a task, factors that prevent individuals from succeeding at a task should be perceived as particularly frustrating for individuals who report high levels of engagement in...

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Work-Relevant Values Strengthen the Stressor–Strain Relation in Elite Army Units

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Psychology in Sports and the Military: Building Understanding and Collaboration Across Disciplines

Psychology in Sports and the Military: Building Understanding and Collaboration Across Disciplines

Review of Cost-Effective and Practical Methods for Obtaining Individual Indices of Operation Stress for Deployed Military Personnel

Self‐Engagement Magnifies the Relationship Between Qualitative Overload and Performance in a Training Setting¹

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Work-Relevant Values Strengthen the Stressor–Strain Relation in Elite Army Units

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Psychology in Sports and the Military: Building Understanding and Collaboration Across Disciplines

Psychology in Sports and the Military: Building Understanding and Collaboration Across Disciplines

Review of Cost-Effective and Practical Methods for Obtaining Individual Indices of Operation Stress for Deployed Military Personnel

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