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Effects of Resilience Training on Resilient Functioning in Chronic Stress Situations Among Cadets of the Swiss Armed Forces Publisher



Niederhauser M1 ; Zueger R1 ; Annen H1 ; Gultekin N2 ; Stanga Z2 ; Brand S3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ; Sadeghibahmani D6, 10
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  1. 1. Military Academy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Birmensdorf, 8903, Switzerland
  2. 2. Centre of Competence for Military and Disaster Medicine, Swiss Armed Forces, Bern, 3008, Switzerland
  3. 3. Center for Disaster Psychiatry and Disaster Psychology, Psychiatric Clinics of the University of Basel, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
  4. 4. Center for Affective, Stress and Sleep Disorders (ZASS), Psychiatric University Hospital Basel, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
  5. 5. Division of Sport Science and Psychosocial Health, Department of Sport, Exercise and Health, University of Basel, Basel, 4052, Switzerland
  6. 6. Sleep Disorders Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, 67146, Iran
  7. 7. Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center, Health Institute, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, 67146, Iran
  8. 8. School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, 25529, Iran
  9. 9. Center for Disaster Psychiatry and Disaster Psychology, Psychiatric University Hospital Basel, Basel, 4002, Switzerland
  10. 10. Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, 94305, CA, United States

Source: Healthcare (Switzerland) Published:2023


Abstract

Research on resilient functioning has gained increasing interest, and some recent studies interpreted resilience in the sense of resilient functioning to stress. In the present study, we investigated the associations between resilient functioning and coping strategies, stress reactivity, self-efficacy, and well-being, and we examined whether resilient functioning could be improved through a training intervention. The participants were 110 male cadets from two infantry officers’ schools of the Swiss Armed Forces. The schools were divided into an intervention and control group. The participants in the intervention group took part in the resilience training intervention, whereas the participants in the control group performed military training as usual. Data were assessed before and after the intervention period. Results showed that resilient functioning was positively associated with task-oriented coping and well-being and negatively associated with emotion-oriented coping and stress reactivity. Furthermore, resilient functioning significantly improved in the intervention group from pre- to post-intervention. The results suggested that specific interventions have the power to increase resilient functioning. © 2023 by the authors.
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