Beyond pride and prejudices: An empirical investigation of German Armed Forces soldiers' personality traits

Individual and Organizational Factors in Coping With COVID-19 in Soldier Students

“…Controlling for gender, age, and presence at campus, we observed positive relations between extraversion and COVID-19 stress that replicates previous reports of a weakened positive effect of extraversion on psychological health in times of social distancing ( Gubler et al, 2021 ; Zacher and Rudolph, 2021a ). Possibly, this might also be related to military samples that have shown to score higher in extraversion ( Klee and Renner, 2016 ). Extraversion was unrelated to social and emotional loneliness and life satisfaction, when all other predictors were considered, suggesting a higher relevance of other variables.…”

“…During the pandemic, conscientiousness mainly turned out to predict adherence to implemented containment-measures ( Carvalho et al, 2020 ). The combination of higher conscientiousness scores in military samples ( Klee and Renner, 2016 ) and the finding that adhering to measures has been shown to be related to higher depressive symptoms ( Wright et al, 2021 ) might be the reason why conscientiousness seemed to have lost some of its positive impact on psychological health. Remarkably, the organizational factors commitment and study satisfaction were strong predictors over and above extraversion and neuroticism in social and emotional loneliness and life satisfaction, but not in COVID-19 stress.…”

“…The COVID-19-related studies reported as of yet mostly focus on samples from the general population, whose findings do not seem readily generalizable to other specific samples such as soldier students. For instance, at the individual level, there is evidence for personality differences in people in emergency-service professions (i.e., the “Rescue Personality”; Klee and Renner, 2013 , 2016 ; Mitchell, 1983 ; Salters-Pedneault et al, 2010 ). At the organizational level, military organizations are distinct from other organizations in a number of features (e.g., special forms of socialization, a pronounced importance of symbols and rituals, military-specific camaraderie, the principle of order and obedience; Richter, 2017 ), thus contributing to a military identity ( Kümmel, 2018 ).…”

Persönlichkeitsstörungen und Werteorientierungen als Prädiktoren männlicher Depression bei militärischen und zivilen Patienten

“…Der Umgang und die Auseinandersetzung mit Aggression und Gewalt (nicht zuletzt durch den potenziell möglichen Einsatz von Waffen und Großgerät) stellt einen wesentlichen Teil der Perzeption des militärischen Berufsbilds und der berufsspezifischen militärischen Ausbildung dar. Offenbar tendieren dabei Menschen mit bestimmten Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen potenziell öfter in den Soldatenberuf [22,23]. Prägungen und Erfahrungen in der Phase der Adoleszenz spielen hier eine gewichtige Rolle bezüglich des späteren Umgangs mit Emotionen, z.…”