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Cognitive Resilience: Assessing Critical Factors in Military Personnel

Authors

KOSÁROVÁ Dominika BÍZIK Vladimír POTOČŇÁK Adam

Year of publication 2024
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source OBRANA A STRATEGIE-DEFENCE & STRATEGY
Citation
web https://www.obranaastrategie.cz/filemanager/files/4071585-en.pdf
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.3849/1802-7199.24.2024.02.133-156
Keywords National resilience; institutional resilience; cognitive resilience; armed forces; hybrid interference
Description The paper investigates factors associated with armed forces personnel's resilience in the face of hybrid interference targeted primarily against the cognitive domain. Building on the established conceptualisation of resilience as comprising institutional and national dimensions, it examines how education levels, socio-economic satisfaction, and job satisfaction relate to dimensions of resilience. Using data from a survey conducted among 884 members of the Czech Armed Forces, the study reveals complex relationships between these factors and resilience. While socioeconomic satisfaction correlates with both dimensions of resilience, job satisfaction appears to be an intervening variable explaining this correlation. The relationship between education and resilience is more complex with a lack of monotonicity but significant differences between some educational groups. While respondents without high school diplomas show significantly lower resilience scores than other groups, the relation becomes more ambiguous with increasing education. The paper underlines the importance of a multidimensional approach to resilience and provides groundwork for future research on how individual factors might relate to resilience enhancement. These findings could inform strategies to strengthen the armed forces' readiness against hybrid interference.

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