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- Börjesson, Marcus
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The psychology of risk and safety in the military: A balancing act
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The primary purpose of this thesis was to examine how individual, leadership, group, and situational factors affect the risk and safety perceptions and behaviors of military personnel. A secondary purpose was to examine how first-line military leaders perceive and deal with risk and safety issues in their leadership roles. The thesis comprises three articles. The first article reports on a longitudinal study of conscripts during their compulsory military training. Results show that individual characteristics, safety beliefs, leadership behaviors, and group cohesion all do have an impact on the risk and safety attitudes of the conscripts. Significant differences in ratings of risk and safety attitudes between basic training and unit training were also found. The second article includes two different samples of rank and file and officers and shows that personality traits and socio-demographic factors are related to negative safety beliefs, as well as to the degree of risk propensity. The third article is based on interviews with military leaders with experience of high-risk military missions. A core theme identified in the study concerns the balancing of risk and safety as a key aspect of the role of the first-line military leadership. The interviews demonstrate how this balancing act underpins several challenges, related to individual, group, leadership, situational and organizational factors. In conclusion, this thesis shows the significant impact that individual, leadership, group, and situational factors can have on the perceptions of risk and safety held by military personnel. The thesis identifies factors that jointly could create a “vulnerability-chain” for maladaptive risk-taking, and factors that jointly form a “strengthening-chain” for adaptive risk-taking and safety efforts. The findings have practical implications for military selection, team composition, leadership education, and military training.
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- Enander, Ann, Professor, 1950-
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Beredd att leda vid samhällskris - vad krävs?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Krisberedskap i kris?. - Stockholm : Axel och Margaret Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse för allmännyttiga ändamål. - 9789188717207 ; , s. 71-78
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- Enander, Ann, Professor, 1950-
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Psychology of crisis and trauma
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Ingår i: Oxford Encyclopedia of Crisis Analysis. - : Oxford University Press. - 9780190610623
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)
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- Nilsson, Sofia, 1975-, et al.
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"Damned if you do, damned if you don’t" : Media frames of accountability and blame in handling a wildfire
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Ingår i: Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. - : Wiley. - 0966-0879 .- 1468-5973. ; 28:1, s. 69-82
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research on media framing of wildfire has chiefly been concerned with the nature of wildfire in the context of climate change and with framing effects on policy and public opinion. Empirical studies on media content, hence what is mediated to crisis managers and the public concerning authorities’ and the public's response, seem to be largely missing. This is remarkable, given that the media represent main sources of information that may influence crisis management and shape public opinion. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify key media frames relating to portrayals of public and authority responses during and after a wildfire crisis. The study is based on media articles from two time periods: immediately after the fire and 1 year later. We used a thematic method of analysis (TA), thus an inductive, “bottom‐up” approach. A core frame, Responsibility/accountability is identified, underpinned by two sub‐themes. One sub‐theme relates to the causes of the fire and its escalation, revealing a number of different interrelated blame frames. The second sub‐theme refers to management of the crisis, reflecting both authorities’ and citizens’ responses. The deficiencies of the former are implicitly suggested to have forced citizens to act to compensate for their inadequacy. The main theoretical contribution is the identification of an interrelationship between frames in relation to different groups of individuals responding to a crisis, pointing to a more complex view of framing effects. In addition, results show how media tend to assess crisis management based on idealistic criteria, inevitably making the evaluation negative. This contributes to an understanding of how media blame frames, thus “blame games,” may unfold. Practical implications of these results are discussed.
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