Airman and Family Resilience: Lessons from the Scientific Literature

Abstract

This final overarching report in a series documents research and recommendations RAND offered to the Air Force to help strengthen the development of a new office responsible for monitoring and promoting resilience among Air Force Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families. Efforts to boost resilience have become an important military response to suicide and other markers of distress and poor health. The report reviews the concepts and measures of resilience, resilience factors, hardiness and flourishing. It describes how resilience and the military's Total Force Fitness concepts are related. The report brings together highlights from the eight companion reports on each Total Force Fitness domain and characterizes types of Air Force data that could be used to track resilience.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA621795

Entities

People

  • Laura L. Miller
  • Sarah O. Meadows
  • Sean Robson

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Brain Injuries
  • Employment
  • Health Services
  • Human Behavior
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Personality
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Recreation
  • Social Psychology
  • Text Messaging
  • Traumatic Stress Disorder

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.