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



Schkade I1 ; Sadeghibahmani D2, 3 ; Lang UE1 ; Blais RK4 ; Stanga Z5, 6 ; Ulgur II5 ; Brand S7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 ; Annen H13
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  1. 1. Psychiatric Hospital of the University of Basel, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
  2. 2. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, United States
  3. 3. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, United States
  4. 4. Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287, AZ, United States
  5. 5. Centre of Competence for Military and Disaster Medicine, Swiss Armed Forces, Bern, 3008, Switzerland
  6. 6. Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Nutritional Medicine and Metabolism, University Hospital and University of Bern, Bern, 3010, Switzerland
  7. 7. Center of Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
  8. 8. Division of Sport Science and Psychosocial Health, Department of Sport, Exercise, and Health, Department of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, 4052, Switzerland
  9. 9. Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, 6715847141, Iran
  10. 10. Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, 6715847141, Iran
  11. 11. School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 1416634793, Iran
  12. 12. Center for Disaster Psychiatry and Disaster Psychology, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
  13. 13. Military Academy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland

Source: European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education Published:2024


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. © 2024 by the authors.
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