Ergometry as a Predictor of Basic Military Training Success

Coping With- Stress during Military Basic Training

Within the stress and coping theoretical framework the study examines how concepts experience, appraise and deal with various aspects of life during the 'beginning phase of their military service. A set of self-report instruments measuring potential sources of problems during military service, cognitive appraisals and the ways of coping with stressors was administered on the sample of 449 males...

Occupational stress and the outcome of basic military training.

BACKGROUND Military training has a high dropout rate but the role of occupational stress is not known. AIMS To examine the relationship between occupational stress and outcome of training. METHODS A study of occupational stress in 476 army recruits (as measured in Week 4 of 23 weeks of basic military training) using previously identified risk factors for lack of success in training and outc...

Mental health screening of Iranian conscripts during basic military training in Guilan province

  Purpose: Aside from psychological suffering, mental disease can bring about a negative influence   on conscripts learning abilities and reduce effectiveness of military trainings. Hence, identifying   at risk conscripts is of vital importance. This study aimed to investigate the mental health of   conscripts during a two-year period from 2011 to 2013 in a military base in Guilan.   Materials ...

Phone-based Metric as a Predictor for Basic Personality Traits

Basic personality traits are typically assessed through questionnaires. Here we consider phone-based metrics as a way to asses personality traits. We use data from smartphones with custom data-collection software distributed to 730 individuals. The data includes information about location, physical motion, face-to-face contacts, online social network friends, text messages and calls. The data i...

The Edwards Personal Preference Schedule as a Predictor of Success in a Collegiate Professional Pilot Training Program