The influence of resilience and expressive flexibility on character strengths and virtues on military leadership in U.S. Military cadets

Introduction: Character strengths and virtues are greatly revered in military leadership. However, there is no empirical work assessing the relationship of resilience expressive flexibility, two essential psychological constructs crucial nurturing mentally healthy individuals, also for successful officer development Methods: Employing a cross-sectional design, this study recruited 107 participants (ages 18 to 22) from private U.S. Military university. McGrath, Rashid, Park, Peterson’s Peterson Seligman’s taxonomies character were measured. Self-reported flexibility additionally assessed. Results: Results revealed McGrath et al.’s virtue self-control temperance, wisdom knowledge, humanity as top ranked an effective leader. In terms strengths, judgment highest, with perspective fairness, second third. Additional results showed model suggesting that explained 45.9% variance significantly (p < .001) predicted Regression models included honesty, social intelligence, hope offered significant predictive outcomes on leadership .001). Furthermore, creativity = .001), bravery .045), love .044), .016), teamwork .013), appreciation beauty curiosity prudence .034), learning .020), zest .017), humor .018), .003). Conclusions: Understanding relationships amongst these will help better cultivating protective mechanisms safeguard adversity, encouraging wellness health, supporting human performance development.