De Beer, MorrisVan Heerden, Adelai2017-11-102017-11-102017De Beer, M. and Van Heerden, A. 2017. The psychological coping, learning potential and career preferences profiles of operational force military candidates. Journal of Psychology in Africa, vol. 27(1): 33-401433-0237http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14330237.2016.1250427http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9761© 2017 Africa Scholarship Development Enterprize. Due to copyright restrictions, the attached PDF file only contains the abstract of the full text item. For access to the full text item, please consult the publisher's website.The aim of this study was to profile the psychological coping, learning potential and career-related interests of 251 candidates for operational force military selection for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) – 26 of whom were successful in the selection Data on their sense of meaning, learning potential and career-related interest were gathered using standardised measures supplemented with open-ended responses The data were analysed to compare the profiles of the successful candidates against those not selected The selected group showed significantly higher mean scores on meaningfulness and learning potential, and lower scores for career-related interest in law and medicine Findings suggest that psychological coping, learning potential and career-related preference information can be used to refine the selection of operational force military candidates.enMilitary selectionPsychological copingHardinessSense of coherenceSelf-efficacyLearning potentialCareer preferenceArticleDe Beer, M., & Van Heerden, A. (2017). The psychological coping, learning potential and career preferences profiles of operational force military candidates. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9761De Beer, Morris, and Adelai Van Heerden "The psychological coping, learning potential and career preferences profiles of operational force military candidates." (2017) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9761De Beer M, Van Heerden A. The psychological coping, learning potential and career preferences profiles of operational force military candidates. 2017; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9761.TY - Article AU - De Beer, Morris AU - Van Heerden, Adelai AB - The aim of this study was to profile the psychological coping, learning potential and career-related interests of 251 candidates for operational force military selection for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) – 26 of whom were successful in the selection Data on their sense of meaning, learning potential and career-related interest were gathered using standardised measures supplemented with open-ended responses The data were analysed to compare the profiles of the successful candidates against those not selected The selected group showed significantly higher mean scores on meaningfulness and learning potential, and lower scores for career-related interest in law and medicine Findings suggest that psychological coping, learning potential and career-related preference information can be used to refine the selection of operational force military candidates. DA - 2017 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Military selection KW - Psychological coping KW - Hardiness KW - Sense of coherence KW - Self-efficacy KW - Learning potential KW - Career preference LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2017 SM - 1433-0237 T1 - The psychological coping, learning potential and career preferences profiles of operational force military candidates TI - The psychological coping, learning potential and career preferences profiles of operational force military candidates UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9761 ER -