Abstract
Cadets (n = 395) of the Hellenic Army NCO Academy completed measures of Positive and Negative Affect, General Health and Resilience. Analysis revealed that positive emotions significantly correlate with higher level of resilience and better psychosomatic health, while negative emotions correlate with lower level of resilience and poor psychosomatic health. Furthermore, resilience strongly correlates with better psychosomatic health. Results also suggest that women cadets and freshmen are using positive emotions and develop resilience, as an adaptive strategy for coping with the high physical and mental demands of the Military Academy. These results contribute to a better understanding of the relationship between positive affections and resilience as well as the effect of these variables on psychosomatic health, in an eminently stressful environment such as Military Academies.
Highlights
IntroductionArmy and especially the sector of Military Academies, is an interesting field to study such concepts, because they require high mental and physical standards for their cadets (Matthews, 2008)
In the framework of Positive Psychology (Seligman & Csikszentmihalyi, 2000), concepts such as positive emotions and resilience have been studied in social, work, and economic contexts because of their ability to equilibrate the negative effects of anxietyrelated experiences, which can influence negatively one’s performance, psychosomatic health and psychological wellbeing.Army and especially the sector of Military Academies, is an interesting field to study such concepts, because they require high mental and physical standards for their cadets (Matthews, 2008)
The aim of the present study is to investigate the relation between positive emotions and resilience as well as the effect of these variables on the psychosomatic health under the stressful conditions produced by the environment of an NCO Military Academy
Summary
Army and especially the sector of Military Academies, is an interesting field to study such concepts, because they require high mental and physical standards for their cadets (Matthews, 2008). Those standards test the limits of cadets in the framework of their military edification, in order to create skilful leaders both in war and peace.
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