Evolution of Resilience and Hybridity in the Psycho-social Field and Their Use in Certain Aspects of Armed Service Practice
Evolution of Resilience and Hybridity in the Psycho-social Field and Their Use in Certain Aspects of Armed Service Practice

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to analyze how the concepts of resilience, the “strength of a subject to resist traumatic events” (Casula and Don Short, 2006, p.12), and hybridity, the “complexities and dilemmas related to changing globality” (Pawlak, 2015, p.1), are employed in Western military practice for an understanding of the reasons behind increased military training regarding both technical and soft skills, and the wider use of the armed services for non-military purposes such as, peacekeeping and distribution of aid to those afflicted by natural disaster. The first chapter will be a brief excursus on the main models relative to resilience and the second chapter will be a short introduction of the concept of hybridity. The third chapter will take into consideration a body of research carried out by military psychologists in the fields of organization, management, motivation, resilience and hybridity. The article will draw attention to a particularly interesting aspect of recent studies in the sphere of military psychology, that is, an increased valorization of human resources which is no longer solely focused on the individual armed service member but also on the well-being of their family. In other words, the article will show a shift within military organizations; a move from a behaviourist vision to one which is both multi-dimensional and dynamic

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