INTRODUCTION: A deeper understanding of personality specifics in military personnel may increase the efficacy of health care professionals in this field. Changes in modern warfare require army officers to make decisions in complicated situations with increasing levels of autonomy. Character is traditionally regarded as a key quality in these dynamics. However, it remains unclear which character strengths are conducive to effective leadership in the military. The present study aims at mapping Czech Army cadets' and professional soldiers' perceptions of the character strengths of those officers, who they consider the best they served under. The study also examined how these perceptions vary across soldiers at different stages of their careers and how much they overlap with the same soldiers' ratings of their own strengths. In addition, a regression analysis, to outline combinations of strengths for various aspects of character-based leadership, was performed. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Respondents (N = 199) were recruited from three different subpopulations of the Czech Army-serving members of two reconnaissance units (N = 38), and 1st (N = 81) and 5th (N = 80) year cadets at the University of Defense. They rated the character strengths of chosen officers and themselves on the Character Strengths Leadership Inventory and the Values in Action Inventory of Strengths Revised. This study was approved by the units' commanding officer and the representatives of the University of Defense. RESULTS: Subordinates rated honesty, leadership, perspective, teamwork, fairness, creativity, love of learning, and zest highest in their chosen officers. These officers' mean profiles strongly correlated in all the three groups (rs = .82-.86). The mean correlation between officers' and respondents' self-reported strengths was not strong (rs = .18). Multiple regression models of the perception of an officer's success, success of their team, them as a leadership example, and them as having a good character, most frequently, involved fairness, honesty, kindness, and social intelligence, while forgiveness was negatively associated with these parameters. CONCLUSIONS: The present study achieved its aims. First, it suggests the officers' character strengths that tend to be most valued by their subordinates among Czech Army cadets and soldiers serving in reconnaissance units. Second, the strong overlap of best officers' character profiles in all groups suggests that this perception may remain stable throughout a soldier's career. Third, the relationship between chosen officers' and respondents' self-reported strengths was negligible, suggesting that the perception of officer's strengths may not be an individual's projection. Fourth, regression models of character-based leadership proposed a combination of character strengths that may contribute to the officer's perceived efficacy. Compared to other studies, the sample included both cadets and military professionals with a proportional number of females being included. These results imply that health care practitioners working with military clients may benefit from the acknowledgment of their specific character strengths, most notably honesty and fairness, while providing care to this population.

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• charakter MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• ozbrojené síly * MeSH
• vedení války MeSH
• zpráva o sobě MeSH
• Check Tag
• lidé MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• časopisecké články MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH

Cíle. Dosavadní výzkumy osobnostních korelátů a prediktorů generativity jsou převážně založeny na pětifaktorovém modelu osobnosti. Méně pozornosti je věnováno jiným osobnostním modelům. Jako další vhodný se jeví Cloningerův model osobnosti, který rozlišuje temperamentové a charakterové rysy osobnosti. Soubor. Dva aspekty generativity – zájem (Loyola Generativity Scale) a jednání (Generative Behavior Checklist) – byly predikovány u souboru osob ve střední dospělosti (N = 83, 58 % žen, průměrný věk 53 let) na základě osobnostních rysů zjišťovaných o deset let dříve. Hypotézy. Autoři předpokládali, že generativní zájem a generativní jednání budou předpovídány rysy vyhýbání se poškození, vyhledávání nového a sebepřesažení. Statistická analýza. Data byla analyzována postupy korelační a regresní analýzy s využitím bootstrappingu. Výsledky. Generativní zájem i generativní jednání mohou být predikovány na základě osobnostních rysů, nicméně v případě generativního zájmu ani jeden z prediktorů nevykazoval samostatný statisticky významný vliv. Signifikantním prediktorem generativního jednání byla dimenze sebepřesažení. Rys sebepřesažení definovaný jako představa o vlastní účasti ve světě jako celku nemá v rámci pětifaktorového modelu obdobu, výsledky tudíž vhodně doplňují dosavadní poznatky o osobnostních souvislostech generativity. Limitace. Studie má dvě limitace: za prvé, výzkum byl proveden s relativně nízkým počtem osob, za druhé, jak generativita, tak osobnostní rysy byly v průběhu longitudinální studie zjišťovány pouze jednou, na různých věkových stupních.

Objectives. The research of personality correlates and predictors of generativity is largely based on five-factor model of personality. Less attention is paid to other personality models. One of another suitable models is Cloninger's model of personality, which distinguishes temperament and character traits of personality. Sample and setting. Two aspects of generativity, concern (Loyola Generativity Scale) and action (Generative Behavior Checklist), were predicted in a group of middle-aged people (N = 83, 58% women, mean age 53 years) based on personality traits ten years earlier. Hypotheses. Authors assumed that generative concern and generative action would be predicted by the traits of harm avoidance, novelty seeking, and self-transcendence. Statistical analysis. Data was analyzed using the correlation and regression analysis with the use of bootstrapping. Results. Generative concern and generative action can be predicted on the basis of personality traits, but in the case of generative concern, none of the predictors showed a separate statistically significant effect. A significant predictor of generative action was the dimension of self-transcendence. The self-transcendence, defined as the concept of own participation in the world as a whole, is not included within the five-factor model, and the results thus suitably complement the existing knowledge of personality factors of generativity. Study limitation. The study has two limitations: first, the research was performed with a relatively small sample size, and second, both generativity and personality traits were assessed only once during the longitudinal study, at different age levels.

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• charakter MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• korelace dat MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• longitudinální studie MeSH
• osobnost * MeSH
• průzkumy a dotazníky MeSH
• regresní analýza MeSH
• sebepojetí MeSH
• senioři MeSH
• sociální chování * MeSH
• temperament MeSH
• testování osobnosti MeSH
• Check Tag
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• senioři MeSH

We explore psychometric characteristics of a modified version of the Cloninger's personality questionnaire, the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised (TCI-R) in a 200-subject sample. This sample was stratified in accordance with the Czech population. We performed principal component analyses and explored the factorial structure of the questionnaire, to establish internal consistency of each dimension. The factorial structure of the TCI-R was well defined for temperament, but not for character. A robust factor was obtained for Persistence. All dimensions obtained higher alpha Cronbach coefficients with the TCI-R than with the TCI. There were high reliability coefficients in test-retest for TCI-R and lower for TCI/TCI-R were found. Significant correlations were obtained between age and NS, RD and SD. The TCI-R seems to have similar psychometric characteristics to TCI, with significant improvements in temperament factor structure and internal consistency of most dimensions.

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• charakter MeSH
• dospělí MeSH
• financování organizované MeSH
• jazyk (prostředek komunikace) MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mladiství MeSH
• osobnostní dotazník statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• průzkumy a dotazníky MeSH
• psychometrie statistika a číselné údaje   MeSH
• reprodukovatelnost výsledků MeSH
• socioekonomické faktory MeSH
• srovnání kultur MeSH
• statistika jako téma MeSH
• temperament MeSH
• Check Tag
• dospělí MeSH
• lidé středního věku MeSH
• lidé MeSH
• mladiství MeSH
• mužské pohlaví MeSH
• ženské pohlaví MeSH
• Publikační typ
• srovnávací studie MeSH
• Geografické názvy
• Česká republika MeSH