Haasper, Laura (2022) Personality traits in the Dutch Special Forces: Zooming in on how recruits fill in questionnaires to detect discipline and dedication. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Special forces operators are constantly working in intense and unpredictable environments all over the world. In order to be successful, their tasks need to be carried out with discipline and dedication. Therefore, this study will investigate how disciplined and dedicated the recruits of the Korps Commandotroepen of the Dutch military are by assessing how they fill in a long personality questionnaire at the start of the selection period. Specifically, we compared successful recruits (n = 35) and the ones who drop out of the program (n = 213) on how they fill in questionnaires in terms of differences in the response times and stability in their answer patterns. We expected successful recruits to display quicker and more stable response times between subsequent items, as they are likely to be disciplined and dedicated. However, we did not find any statistical differences between the groups in the emerging clusters of response time and stability. We further expected successful recruits to display more consistent answer patterns on the different facets of the Big Five personality traits. Categorical recurrence quantification analyses revealed no difference between the graduates and non-graduates. Nevertheless, moving from exclusively analyzing outcomes of global measures to assessing actual behavior of the recruits may be an important avenue for better selection procedures in the future.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Huijzer, T.H. and Hartigh, J.R. den |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2022 08:02 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2022 08:02 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/165 |
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