Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel

Personnel in many professions must remain “ready” to perform diverse activities. Managing individual and collective capability is a common concern for leadership and decision makers. Typical existing approaches for monitoring readiness involve keeping detailed records of training, health and equipme...

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Autores principales:	Richard James Keegan, Andrew Flood, Theo Niyonsenga, Marijke Welvaert, Ben Rattray, Mustafa Sarkar, Lee Melberzs, David Crone
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	job performance/performance measurement job design/work characteristics/empowerment psychometrics/measurement mood fatigue subjective ratings Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b911879035a04072829ff049192c91bf2021-11-18T04:45:54ZDevelopment and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.738609https://doaj.org/article/b911879035a04072829ff049192c91bf2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.738609/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Personnel in many professions must remain “ready” to perform diverse activities. Managing individual and collective capability is a common concern for leadership and decision makers. Typical existing approaches for monitoring readiness involve keeping detailed records of training, health and equipment maintenance, or – less commonly – data from wearable devices that can be difficult to interpret as well as raising privacy concerns. A widely applicable, simple psychometric measure of perceived readiness would be invaluable in generating rapid evaluations of current capability directly from personnel. To develop this measure, we conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with a sample of 770 Australian military personnel. The 32-item Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale (ARMS) demonstrated good model fit, and comprised nine factors: overall readiness; physical readiness; physical fatigue; cognitive readiness; cognitive fatigue; threat-challenge (i.e., emotional/coping) readiness; skills-and-training readiness; group-team readiness, and equipment readiness. Readiness factors were negatively correlated with recent stress, current negative affect and distress, and positively correlated with resilience, wellbeing, current positive affect and a supervisor’s rating of solider readiness. The development of the ARMS facilitates a range of new research opportunities: enabling quick, simple and easily interpreted assessment of individual and group readiness.Richard James KeeganRichard James KeeganAndrew FloodAndrew FloodTheo NiyonsengaTheo NiyonsengaMarijke WelvaertBen RattrayBen RattrayMustafa SarkarLee MelberzsDavid CroneFrontiers Media S.A.articlejob performance/performance measurementjob design/work characteristics/empowermentpsychometrics/measurementmoodfatiguesubjective ratingsPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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spellingShingle	job performance/performance measurement job design/work characteristics/empowerment psychometrics/measurement mood fatigue subjective ratings Psychology BF1-990 Richard James Keegan Richard James Keegan Andrew Flood Andrew Flood Theo Niyonsenga Theo Niyonsenga Marijke Welvaert Ben Rattray Ben Rattray Mustafa Sarkar Lee Melberzs David Crone Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel
description	Personnel in many professions must remain “ready” to perform diverse activities. Managing individual and collective capability is a common concern for leadership and decision makers. Typical existing approaches for monitoring readiness involve keeping detailed records of training, health and equipment maintenance, or – less commonly – data from wearable devices that can be difficult to interpret as well as raising privacy concerns. A widely applicable, simple psychometric measure of perceived readiness would be invaluable in generating rapid evaluations of current capability directly from personnel. To develop this measure, we conducted exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis with a sample of 770 Australian military personnel. The 32-item Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale (ARMS) demonstrated good model fit, and comprised nine factors: overall readiness; physical readiness; physical fatigue; cognitive readiness; cognitive fatigue; threat-challenge (i.e., emotional/coping) readiness; skills-and-training readiness; group-team readiness, and equipment readiness. Readiness factors were negatively correlated with recent stress, current negative affect and distress, and positively correlated with resilience, wellbeing, current positive affect and a supervisor’s rating of solider readiness. The development of the ARMS facilitates a range of new research opportunities: enabling quick, simple and easily interpreted assessment of individual and group readiness.
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author	Richard James Keegan Richard James Keegan Andrew Flood Andrew Flood Theo Niyonsenga Theo Niyonsenga Marijke Welvaert Ben Rattray Ben Rattray Mustafa Sarkar Lee Melberzs David Crone
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title	Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel
title_short	Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel
title_full	Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel
title_fullStr	Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel
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publishDate	2021
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Development and Initial Validation of an Acute Readiness Monitoring Scale in Military Personnel

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