How leaders can influence the impact that stressors have on soldiers

Military Medicine

Volumn 169, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 541-545

  Britt, Thomas W ^a   Davison, James ^a   Bliese, Paul D ^b   Castro, Carl Andrew ^c  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army Med Research Unit Europe   (United States)

^c WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LEADERSHIP; MENTAL HEALTH; MORALITY; MOTIVATION; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SLEEP; SOLDIER; STRESS; WELLBEING; WORKLOAD; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LEADERSHIP; MILITARY PERSONNEL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SLEEP DEPRIVATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 4544242248     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED.169.7.541     Document Type: Review

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