I work for the military and developing a tool to assess pre-enlistment resilience. At the same time, I am interested in providing some resilience training to the military personnel. i just wonder whether your project is applicable to the military setting.
Kanthi Hettigoda
Pre-enlistment resilience is a very interesting and relevant topic. I would be interested in learning more about the tool you are developing.
As for resilience training, my work has been used with military personnel and I am currently working on a curriculum for larger application.
I am using some items from Wagnild and Young's resilience scale and mental toughness questionnaire MTQ 48. along with some other risk factors
Kanthi..... what a great project.... as mentioned above Gail Wagnild's scale is being used quite frequently in the US... and I have reached out to her for more information about it & she is very accessible..... Also might want to look at Mark Seligman's work on Positive Psychology which was used to develop a program for building resilience with the Army here in the US....
I actually did a Literature Review on Resilience for a Vendor working on developing another tool for the EAP world... so will attach even though about 2 years old at this point. Resilience a hot topic these days in or out of the military... Good Luck!
Dear Patricia
Thank you so much for this. yes I have read about Seligman's work on resilience and his project with the US military. After my PhD I need to do such kind of training for SL military. I will keep in touch.
Thanks and regards
Thanks Kanthi.... if you want to contact me directly - just shoot me an email: [email protected] .... but first finish that Ph.D.
Look at Angela duckworth's research, she is a prof at U Penn
https://psychology.sas.upenn.edu/people/angela-duckworth
and her research is on resilience or what she calls Grit. She actually developed a Grit scale measurement.
http://angeladuckworth.com/grit-scale/
Interesting study she did when she measured west point cadets using this GRIT scale and she correlated the most successful cadets were the one who scored highest on the Grit scale. similarly, she used the same experiment on school kids and discovered that Grit was a better predictor of success in college if you factor out standardized test scores and GPA allowing for income disparity.
I am delighted to read your comments and observations. And I thank you Kanthi for instigating these :-)
I'm afraid iNEAR is not a tool but rather a model & an intervention. A first set of Pilot iNEAR results to published in a few months time in peer reviewed article.
Yes iNEAR itself and, as colleagues have noted above, principles and tools from positive psychology coaching in general can offer a useful and meaningful scaffold to working within the military sector.
We are scheduled to take iNEAR to France and to Wales in Feb & March looking to expand its remits to working with young people that have experienced trauma in a culturally relevant / sensitive way.
Happy to talk more if any of these above are of interest [email protected]
thank you once more
my best wishes
Aneta
Would appreciate any updates on this project as we work on a CIR Measurment Tool for the employee assistance field... Thanks!
Dear Aneta
Thanks for your reply. I would love to know more about cultural sensitivity of iNEAR with young people in different countries. Please keep me updated.
Thanks and regards
Kanthi
Hello Kanthi,
I was wondering if you are working on this currently? I am doing my own personal research while working as an embedded counselor with the Marine Corps.
Katherine
Katherine,
Not sure if you have been able to see Mark Seligman's work out of U of Penn with the Army... my guess is that would be fairly easy to find and then just adjust to the Marine Core Cutlure - Just a thought...
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