Risk propensity within the military: a study of Swedish officers and soldiers

Börjesson, Marcus; Österberg, Johan; Enander, Ann

doi:10.1080/13669877.2013.879489

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“…We found few researchers with long-term interests in military risk-taking and sensation seeking: An Israeli group, with Ben-Shalom (two publications) and Glicksohn (three publications) as main investigators, has carried out quite unique studies of military veterans from the Special Forces (Ben-Shalom & Glicksohn, 2013;Glicksohn & Bozna, 2000;Glicksohn et al, 2004); an Estonian research group with Parmak (three publications) as main investigator has done interesting studies on sensation seeking in relation to need for structure (Parmak et al, 2012;Parmak et al, 2013Parmak et al, , 2014; a French group led by Sicard (four publications) has developed and used the EVAR risk scale Sicard et al, 1999;Sicard, Jouve, Couderc, & Blin, 2001;Sicard et al, 2003); a Norwegian group (two publications) has looked at risk perceptions (Kobbeltvedt et al, 2005;Kobbeltvedt et al, 2004); a Swedish group (two publications) has investigated safety culture (Börjesson et al, 2011(Börjesson et al, , 2015; and an Indian team (two publications) has been looking at safety attitudes in aviation culture .…”

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Risk-Taking and Sensation Seeking in Military Contexts: A Literature Review

Breivik

Sand²,

Sookermany

2019

Sage Open

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The article is based on a literature review of studies covering risk-taking and sensation seeking within military contexts over a time span of 3 decades from 1983 to 2015. Literature was gathered through a four-stage search procedure identifying 25 studies of risk-taking and 16 studies of sensation seeking altogether. Because warfare and military conflicts are dangerous and risky pursuits, one could imagine there being a lot of empirical research about risk-taking and sensation seeking in the military. We have found this not to be the case. The research is both small in volume and scattered when it comes to use of theories, methods, and samples of military personnel. In general, there seem to be few clear research paradigms. The results of the empirical studies show that there are adaptive as well as nonadaptive forms of risk-taking in relation to military situations. Similarly, military personnel scoring high on sensation seeking possess certain advantages, for instance, dealing with stress and risk, yet may also cause problems of various kinds. The review ends by pointing out implications for research and practice.

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“…In another study by Börjesson, Österberg, and Enander (2015), the focus was on risk propensity within two military samples. The first sample comprised Swedish soldiers (n = 119) and officers (n = 12) from a logistic regiment, part of the core battalion of the Nordic Battle Group.…”

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Risk-Taking and Sensation Seeking in Military Contexts: A Literature Review

Breivik

Sand²,

Sookermany

2019

Sage Open

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“…Another surprising finding was the low endorsement of risk-taking, as a dimension of TMI. Not only have military men’s attitudes toward risk-taking often been a focus of academic study (Börjesson et al, 2015); but, moreover, the peculiar and dynamic relationship between risk-taking and masculinity for military men has become a particular area of scholarly attention (Mankayi & Naidoo, 2011). The interest in risk-taking within military populations has often been motivated by two competing demands: on the one hand, the demand of operational necessity, and on the other hand, the demand for adaptive and appropriate decision-making (Breivik et al, 2019).…”

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The Endorsement of Traditional Masculine Ideology by South African Navy Men: A Research Report

Martin

Wijk²

2020

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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Although the study of masculinity/ies in South Africa has been a point of academic interest, especially since the fall of apartheid; there has been little focus on masculinity/ies peculiar to the South African military establishment. Where there has been, this has focused on the army environment and adopted a smaller-scale qualitative approach. In contrast, this study focuses on the South African Navy. The study provides a brief report of findings from the administration of a traditional masculine ideology scale with 1,185 South African navy men, between 19 and 59 years of age (mean of 25 years). Descriptive statistics, a multiple regression analysis, one-sample t-test, and one-way analysis of variance were run to analyze the data. Results demonstrated that this sample of navy men significantly endorsed constructs of self-sufficiency, physical toughness, and emotional restrictedness, as dimensions of traditional masculine ideology. Avoidance of femininity and risk-taking were not significantly endorsed.

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“…In another work by Mishra and Lalumière (2011) the subject of investigation was gambling as a form of risk-taking analysed with the use of behavioural measures. Finally, one of the recent studies was focused on risk propensity within the military, which suggested that some demographic factors might infl uence individual inclinations towards risky behaviour (Börjesson, Österberg, and Enander 2015).…”

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“…The last mentioned research by (Börjesson et al 2015) indicates one of the issues currently investigated regarding measurement of risk propensity in the literature -differences stemming from socio-demographic factors. The work by Tyszka and Domurat (2004) seems to confi rm that concern.…”

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Testing Question Order Effects of Self-perception of Risk Propensity on Simple Lottery Choices as Measures of the Actual Risk Propensity

Golik

2018

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Uncertainty together with the necessity of making choices inevitably results in risky decisions. For many years now, scientists have been studying notions connected with risk such as risk management, risk perception or risk propensity. While many sophisticated methods regarding measurement of risk propensity have been developed so far, it seems that little attention has been paid to checking whether they are not inherently fl awed. The main goal of this article is to check with a simple preliminary study whether questionnaire based methods of risk propensity assessment are not susceptible to question order effects. The research is focused on respondents' answers to simple lottery choices as measures of their risk propensity. However, what would happen if the respondents were fi rst asked how they perceive their own risk propensity? In order to answer this query a few questions designed to measure risk propensity and self-perception of risk propensity have been interspersed in a questionnaire of another research project. Furthermore, as an additional output of the study, the correlation has been checked between self-perception of risk propensity and the actual assessment of risk propensity based on the questions used. The results of the study show that question order effects are partially present in the setting described. Some conclusions and recommendations for further research are made based on the results. Finally, it can be concluded from the research that simple self-perception of risk propensity was signifi cantly correlated with measures of actual risk propensity used.

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Risk propensity within the military: a study of Swedish officers and soldiers

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

Risk-Taking and Sensation Seeking in Military Contexts: A Literature Review

Risk-Taking and Sensation Seeking in Military Contexts: A Literature Review

The Endorsement of Traditional Masculine Ideology by South African Navy Men: A Research Report

Testing Question Order Effects of Self-perception of Risk Propensity on Simple Lottery Choices as Measures of the Actual Risk Propensity

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