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7 Prospects for Implementation
Pages 126-132

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... The mechanisms by which environmental demands operate to produce stress reactions are linked to features of the physical ant loci-cultural milieux that affect stressor salience and signification, mitigating factors, resources, and coping processes. For example, not everyone who has a long commute to work on congested roadways is going to experience stress that is manifested by elevated blood pressure, negative mood, lowered frustration tolerance, impairments in cognitive functioning, and health problems.
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From page 127...
... Training facilities from recruit training depots to specialized schools, such as those for drill instructors, officer candidates, NCO academies, recruiters, airborne jumpmaster, underwater demolition, etc., are prime arena for stress coping curricula as a preventive intervention. The receptivity of
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From page 128...
... But when the person is either not currently stressed or does not perceive the severity of the impending stress associated with the future duty assignment, then the perceived value of the stress reduction program will be attenuated. Therefore, it will be important to not only give the audience a realistic picture of impending stress but also to tie the ideas about stress coping skills to performance enhancement.
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From page 129...
... I suspect that the flight surgeon is one of the last persons that a pilot would like to see. Existing stress assessment devices such as life events scales, hassle scales, symptom checklists, Type-A behavior scales, or measures of job tension might be examined as a predictive battery, but it is likely that contextual conditions can easily override personological indices.
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From page 130...
... Our research with four DI School cohorts did receive attention by base commanders, and corporals are no longer sent to Drill Instructor School. Our consistent findings of training unit environment effects in recruit training appear also to extend into the first term of enlistment, although analyses on those recruit longitudinal data are not complete.
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From page 131...
... has delineated, efficacy expectations derive from four main sources, namely performance accomplishments, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological states. Training unit leaders can enhance efficacy, therefore, through modeling and suggestion.
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... When it has been estimated that in a high intensity war, one-third of the non-death casualties will be psychiatric, the value of stress coping skills should gain sway. Because stress has direct effects on performance, as well as on health and adjustment, the ability to regulate stress can be a significant asset to troops and commanders.
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  • drill field
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  • marine corps
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  • specialized schools
  • impending stress
  • instructor school
  • corps drill
  • underwater demolition

  • officer candidates
  • recruit training
  • training unit
  • efficacy expectations
  • stress reactions

  • contextual conditions
  • irwin sarason
  • approaches reviewed
  • personal efficacy
  • negative mood

  • army officer
  • leadership styles
  • findings echo
  • reviewed earlier
  • application training


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