The relationship between military loyalty and both character strengths and psychological resilience / 解放军医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To explore the correlation between military loyalty and both character strengths and psychological resilience, and understand the influence of personality factor on military loyalty. Methods: The correlation between military loyalty, character strengths and psychological resilience can be found by correlation analysis. Hierarchical regression analysis explored the influence of demographic and personality factors on military loyalty. Analysis of mediating effect was conducted for finding the role that psychological resilience plays in character strengths mediating the military loyalty. Results: A total of 476 valid questionnaires were retrieved. Military personnel showed a significant positive correlation of character strengths and psychological resilience with loyalty (P=0.000); character strengths and psychological resilience had significant positive predictive effects on the loyalty of military personnel, of which character strengths had a positive predictive rate (β=0.42, P=0.000) for the loyalty of military personnel and explained 15.6% of the total variation in loyalty. The positive prediction rate (β=0.38, P=0.000) of military psychological resilience for loyalty explained 13.0% of the total variation of loyalty; psychological resilience not only has a significant positive predictive effect on the loyalty of military personnel, but also plays a partial mediating effect of character strengths on the loyalty of military personnel, with the mediating effect accounting for 29.3% of the total effect. Conclusion: Character strengths and psychological resilience can effectively and positively predict the loyalty of military personnel, while psychological resilience partially regulates the improvement of the loyalty of military personnel.