Values and Virtues in the Military. Nadine Eggimann Zanetti

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Good character: The revival of research on positive traits

       3.2.2 Measurement instruments

       3.2.3 Values and personality

       3.2.4 Values and motivation

       3.3 Universal virtues: Definitions and theories

       3.3.1 Principle studies on identifying and structuring virtues

       3.3.2 The factor structure of character strengths and virtues

       3.4 The psycholexical approach towards the structure of values and virtues

       3.4.1 Psycholexical studies on universal values

       3.4.2 Psycholexical studies on universal virtues

       3.5 Classifications of values and virtues: Summarizing overview

       3.6 Conceptual difference between values and virtues

       4 Research on military values and virtues

       4.1 Significant findings on the structure of military values and virtues

       4.1.1 Findings on military values

       4.1.2 Findings on military virtues

       4.2 International practical perspective

       4.3 Values and virtues in the Swiss Armed Forces

       5 Research questions and aim of this present thesis

       6 Procedure

       6.1 Pre-study: Development of the MVVC

       6.1.1 Psycholexical-oriented analysis

       6.1.2 Categorization in values and virtues

       6.1.3 Expert interview with high executive military leaders

       6.2 The MVVC applied in a hierarchical top-down data collection

       Study I: Assessing the Structure of Military Values

       7 The structure of military values and the relation to universal values and personality

       7.1 Introduction

       7.1.1 The psycholexical approach towards the structure of values

       7.1.2 Relations of values to personality

       7.1.3 Research on values in military psychology

       7.1.4 Aims of the study

       7.2 Method

       7.2.1 Participants and procedure

       7.2.2 Measures

       7.3 Results

       7.3.1 Primary analyses

       7.3.2 Factor structure of military values

       7.3.3 Five military value factors

       7.3.4 Relations of the five factors of military values to universal values and personality traits

       7.4 Discussion

       Study II: Assessing the Structure of Military Virtues

       8 The structure of military virtues and the relation to the five factors of the VIA-IS

       8.1 Introduction

       8.1.1 Five factors of character strengths measured by the VIA-IS

       8.1.2 Research on character strengths and virtues among military samples

       8.1.3 The psycholexical approach towards the structure of virtues

       8.1.4 Aims of the study

       8.2 Method

       8.2.1 Participants and procedure

       8.2.2 Measures

       List of 42 military virtues