Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel.

Autor:	Keegan RJ; Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.; Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia., Flood A; Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.; Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia., Niyonsenga T; Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.; Health Research Institute, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia., Welvaert M; Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia., Rattray B; Research Institute for Sport and Exercise, Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia.; Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT, Australia., Sarkar M; School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom., Melberzs L; Australian Army, Adelaide, SA, Australia., Crone D; Department of Defence, Australian Government, Edinburgh, SA, Australia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Frontiers in psychology [Front Psychol] 2021 Nov 18; Vol. 12, pp. 738609. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Nov 18 (Print Publication: 2021).
DOI:	10.3389/fpsyg.2021.738609
Abstrakt:	Personnel in many professions must remain "ready" to perform diverse activities. Managing individual and collective capability is a common concern for leadership and decision makers. Typical existing approaches for monitoring readiness involve keeping detailed records of training, health and equipment maintenance, or - less commonly - data from wearable devices that can be difficult to interpret as well as raising privacy concerns. A widely applicable, simple psychometric measure of perceived readiness would be invaluable in generating rapid evaluations of current capability directly from personnel. To develop this measure, we conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with a sample of 770 Australian military personnel. The 32-item Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale (ARMS) demonstrated good model fit, and comprised nine factors: overall readiness; physical readiness; physical fatigue; cognitive readiness; cognitive fatigue; threat-challenge (i.e., emotional/coping) readiness; skills-and-training readiness; group-team readiness, and equipment readiness. Readiness factors were negatively correlated with recent stress, current negative affect and distress, and positively correlated with resilience, wellbeing, current positive affect and a supervisor's rating of solider readiness. The development of the ARMS facilitates a range of new research opportunities: enabling quick, simple and easily interpreted assessment of individual and group readiness. Competing Interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. (Copyright © 2021 Keegan, Flood, Niyonsenga, Welvaert, Rattray, Sarkar, Melberzs and Crone.)
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