Soldier Readiness: Insights from Qualitative Interviews

Abstract

The U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) is taking a comprehensive approach to optimizing and enhancing Soldier readiness across cognitive, physical, social, and emotional (CPSE) domains. Relatively little is known about the social and emotional (SE) components of Soldier readiness in comparison to the cognitive and physical (CP) domains. In addition, there is not an integrated approach to investigate how CPSE domains interact and influence performance. From January to May 2016, the research team conducted three qualitative studies with Soldiers including platoon, squad, and team leaders from the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, NC. The purpose of these studies was to better understand what the Army can do to help Soldiers prepare and build their SE readiness pre-deployment, sustain their readiness throughout a deployment, and restore it post-deployment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 10, 2018
Accession Number
AD1044757

Entities

People

  • Caelli Craig
  • Ellen P. Merrill
  • F. Caroline Davis
  • Jason Augustyn
  • Justine Federici

Organizations

  • United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Personnel
  • Cognitive Science
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Families (Human)
  • Group Dynamics
  • Human Behavior
  • Mentoring
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychological Adaptation
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Resilience
  • Social Psychology
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training

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