Military Values, Military Virtues, and Vulnerable Narcissism among Cadets of the Swiss Armed Forces—Results of a Cross-Sectional Study-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Military Values, Military Virtues, and Vulnerable Narcissism among Cadets of the Swiss Armed Forces—Results of a Cross-Sectional Study

Published:2024-07-19 Issue:7 Volume:14 Page:2074-2086
ISSN:2254-9625
Container-title:European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education
language:en
Short-container-title:EJIHPE

Author:

Schkade Immanuel¹,Sadeghi-Bahmani Dena²³^ORCID,Lang Undine E.¹,Blais Rebecca K.⁴,Stanga Zeno⁵⁶,Ülgür Ismail I.⁵,Brand Serge⁷⁸⁹¹⁰¹¹¹²^ORCID,Annen Hubert¹³

Affiliation:

1. Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

2. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

3. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

4. Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA

5. Centre of Competence for Military and Disaster Medicine, Swiss Armed Forces, 3008 Bern, Switzerland

6. Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism, University Hospital and University of Bern, 3010 Bern, Switzerland

7. Center of Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

8. Division of Sport Science and Psychosocial Health, Department of Sport, Exercise, and Health, Department of Medicine, University of Basel, 4052 Basel, Switzerland

9. Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah 6715847141, Iran

10. Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah 6715847141, Iran

11. School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 1416634793, Iran

12. Center for Disaster Psychiatry and Disaster Psychology, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, 4002 Basel, Switzerland

13. Military Academy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Abstract

Background: For military leaders, military values and virtues are important psychological prerequisites for successful leadership and for ethical and moral military behavior. However, research on predictors of military values and virtues is scarce. Given this background, we investigated whether Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), resilience, and vulnerable narcissism might be favorably or unfavorably associated with military values and virtues, and whether vulnerable narcissism could moderate the association between the OCB-by-resilience-interaction, and military virtues. Methods: A total of 214 officer cadets (mean age: 20.75 years; 96.8% males) of the Swiss Armed Forces (SAF) volunteered to take part in this cross-sectional study. They completed a booklet of self-rating scales covering dimensions of military values and military virtues, OCB, resilience, and vulnerable narcissism. Results: Higher scores for military virtues were associated with higher scores for military values, OCB, and resilience, and with lower scores for vulnerable narcissism. Multiple regression models showed that higher scores for OCB and resilience were associated with military values and virtues. Vulnerable narcissism moderated the association between military virtues, and the OCB-by-resilience-interaction: the higher the vulnerable narcissism, the more the OCB-by-resilience-interaction was associated with lower scores for military virtues. Conclusions: Among cadets of the SAF, the associations between military values, military virtues, OCB, and resilience were highly intertwined, while vulnerable narcissism appeared to attenuate the association between military virtues, OCB, and resilience.

Funder

Centre of Competence for Military and Disaster Medicine, Swiss Armed Forces

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2254-9625/14/7/138/pdf

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