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Resilience through

Leadership 4

DONALD CAMPBELL, KATHLEEN
CAMPBELL, AND JAMES W. NESS
Department of Behavioral Sciences and
Leadership, U.S. Military Academy

Contents

Leadership: Basic Considerations ...................................................................... 58
Eliciting Willing Acceptance of Infl uence ................................................... 58
Personal and Inherent Qualities ................................................................... 59
Action and Behavior ....................................................................................... 60
Implications ...................................................................................................... 60
Concepts of Biobehavioral Resilience ............................................................... 61
Facing Reality with Determination .............................................................. 62
Imposing Meaning on Hardship ................................................................... 63
Willingness to Improvise ............................................................................... 63
Leadership as a “Resilience Reserve” ............................................................ 64
Resilience and Models of Stress ......................................................................... 65
Four Processes Stress Model .......................................................................... 66
Demand–Control–Support Stress Model .................................................... 67
Resilience: Trait versus State .......................................................................... 69
Stressors in Military Environments .................................................................. 70
Stressors in Routine, Nondeployed Environments ..................................... 70
Stressors in Deployed Environments ........................................................... 72
Leadership, Resilience, and Adverse Environments ........................................74
Resilience Creation .......................................................................................... 75
Specifi c Issues ....................................................................................................... 76
Leadership Style, Social Support, and Mental Health................................ 76
Resilience, Leadership, and Training ........................................................... 78
Support for Soldiers ........................................................................................ 80
Conclusions and Recommendations ................................................................. 80
Normal Leadership Eff ects ..............................................................................81

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