Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot study

It can be said that one of the main fundamentals of life welfare is right decision-making. There are no doubts that we would get two different outcomes after choosing right or wrong decisions in decisive moments of life. This takes into account any sphere of life. Speaking about military platform...

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Main Author: Giedrė Ambrulaitienė
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Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 2017-12-01
Series:Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach
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Online Access:https://www.journals.vu.lt/social-welfare/article/view/28122
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description It can be said that one of the main fundamentals of life welfare is right decision-making. There are no doubts that we would get two different outcomes after choosing right or wrong decisions in decisive moments of life. This takes into account any sphere of life. Speaking about military platform we see that sometimes decisions even in tactical level can make huge impact to strategic levels and this can directly affect life welfare of whole country or even regions. So, right decisions in military are important not only to the welfare of soldiers, but can be also important to peaceful survival of the humanity in various places of the world, speaking in general way. The analysis of scientific literature revealed that during military decision making process officers usually face large number of decision-making factors. Literature analysis revealed three most important factor groups in the military decision making process: psychological, social and situational. The aim of this article is to compare social (Rank, Time of service, Marital status) and psychological (Self – efficacy in General; Self – efficacy in TLP) factors in military tasks. Situational factors will not be part of this study. The main situational factors were included in each military decision making tasks.  Research results disclosed, that higher self-efficacy in general appears when main goal of military task is maintenance of LT statehood and sovereignty and given specific military task is mainly blocking. Lower self-efficacy in general appears when main goals are safety of important specific objects that would damage states’ specific spheres like energy, transportation or economy and specific military tasks are disrupting and disturbing. Officers with higher self-efficacy in TLP more often choose successful decisions in nine different specific military tasks. Officers’ higher self-efficacy in TLP is more important to successful decision making than officers’ higher self-efficacy in general.
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spelling doaj-art-29d3c6b25a794b2295a7bca6189d2dfc2025-08-20T03:09:27ZengVilnius University PressSocial Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach2424-38762017-12-017210.21277/sw.v2i7.316Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot studyGiedrė Ambrulaitienė0Vilnius University, Lithuania It can be said that one of the main fundamentals of life welfare is right decision-making. There are no doubts that we would get two different outcomes after choosing right or wrong decisions in decisive moments of life. This takes into account any sphere of life. Speaking about military platform we see that sometimes decisions even in tactical level can make huge impact to strategic levels and this can directly affect life welfare of whole country or even regions. So, right decisions in military are important not only to the welfare of soldiers, but can be also important to peaceful survival of the humanity in various places of the world, speaking in general way. The analysis of scientific literature revealed that during military decision making process officers usually face large number of decision-making factors. Literature analysis revealed three most important factor groups in the military decision making process: psychological, social and situational. The aim of this article is to compare social (Rank, Time of service, Marital status) and psychological (Self – efficacy in General; Self – efficacy in TLP) factors in military tasks. Situational factors will not be part of this study. The main situational factors were included in each military decision making tasks.  Research results disclosed, that higher self-efficacy in general appears when main goal of military task is maintenance of LT statehood and sovereignty and given specific military task is mainly blocking. Lower self-efficacy in general appears when main goals are safety of important specific objects that would damage states’ specific spheres like energy, transportation or economy and specific military tasks are disrupting and disturbing. Officers with higher self-efficacy in TLP more often choose successful decisions in nine different specific military tasks. Officers’ higher self-efficacy in TLP is more important to successful decision making than officers’ higher self-efficacy in general. https://www.journals.vu.lt/social-welfare/article/view/28122psychosocial factorsmilitary decision makingofficers
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Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot study
Social Welfare: Interdisciplinary Approach
psychosocial factors
military decision making
officers
title Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot study
title_full Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot study
title_fullStr Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot study
title_full_unstemmed Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot study
title_short Psychosocial decision making factors in military: a pilot study
title_sort psychosocial decision making factors in military a pilot study
topic psychosocial factors
military decision making
officers
url https://www.journals.vu.lt/social-welfare/article/view/28122
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