Impact of personality on cadet academic and military performance within mediating role of self-efficacy

S Bekesiene - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The current operational military environment is changing, complex,
unpredictable, and ambiguous. Due to such situations, soldiers are constantly forced to think …

The relationship between psychological hardiness and military performance by reservists: a moderation effect of perceived stress and resilience

S Bekesiene, R Smaliukienė, R Kanapeckaitė - Healthcare, 2023 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of hardiness on the perceived military
performance of reservists, ie, young people who have full-time jobs in a civilian sector and …

Reserve soldiers' psychological resilience impact to sustainable military competences: on the mediating role of psychological skills (effort, self-efficacy, proactivity)

R Kanapeckaitė, S Bekesiene, D Bagdžiūnienė - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This research aims to explore an analytical model, gauge the interplay between
psychological resilience and achieved military competencies, and examine an intermediary …

The Influence of Social Dynamics on Biological Aging and the Health of Historically Marginalized Populations: A Biopsychosocial Model for Health Disparities

LM Tam, K Hocker, T David, EM Williams - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
Historically marginalized populations are susceptible to social isolation resulting from their
unique social dynamics; thus, they incur a higher risk of developing chronic diseases across …

Personal growth under stress: Mediating effects of unit cohesion and leadership during mandatory military training

S Bekesiene, R Smaliukiene - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study explores the phenomena of personal growth under stress and investigates the
mediating effect of leadership and four elements of group cohesion (social, task, norm, and …

Meaning in military service among reservists: measuring the effect of prosocial motivation in a moderated-mediation model

R Smaliukienė, S Bekesiene, R Kanapeckaitė… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The meaningful commitment to serve one's country and the desire to defend
others make military service unique compared to other human activities. This is especially …

Sustainable reservists' services: the effect of resilience on the intention to remain in the active military reserve using a parallel mediating model

S Bekesiene, R Kanapeckaitė, R Smaliukienė… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
The high priority of military training programs in the army is to improve the resilience of its
professional and reserve soldiers. In addition, resilience helps to maintain the optimal …

Determining the main resilience competencies by applying fuzzy logic in military organization

S Bekesiene, O Nakonechnyi, O Kapustyan… - Mathematics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Military training programs have been developed to enhance soldier resilience
competencies, which are necessary for soldiers to perform their duties effectively under …

Associations between adversity in the family of origin and hair cortisol concentration in adulthood

TK Neppl, ON Diggs, BJ Lohman, J Lee… - Developmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The current study examined associations between parental adversities as experienced in
adolescence and hair cortisol concentration (HCC) 26 years later (n= 47). Specifically …

[HTML][HTML] Feasibility of a prospective, longitudinal study of resilience among young military recruits with embedded laboratory sub-study: the ARMOR pilot trial

AC Hitz, SBD Hubbling, A Hodges… - Research …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Multilevel, longitudinal studies are integral to resilience research; however, they
are costly and present unique methodological challenges. The objective of this study was to …