Self-efficacy as a mediator of the relationship between subjective well-being and general health of military cadets

• Autor(a) principal: Souza,Luciane Albuquerque Sá de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Torres,Ana Raquel Rosas, Barbosa,Genário Alves, Lima,Tiago Jessé Souza de, Souza,Luana Elayne Cunha de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2014001102309
• topic: Self Efficacy; Mental Health; Military Personnel

The objective of this study is to investigate the role of self-efficacy beliefs as a mediator of the relationship between the subjective well-being and general health of military cadets (police and firefighters). For this study, 228 cadets participated, the majority being Military Police officer candidates (65%), male (79%), between 17 and 34 years of age (99%), and unmarried (74%). They responded to questionnaires on general health (GHQ-12), perceived general self-efficacy, to the multiple scales that cover subjective well-being, and demographic questions. Initial regression analyses indicate the predictive power of subject well-being regarding general health. Subsequently, the mediation analyses provide satisfactory evidence for the role of perceived self-efficacy as a mediator of the relationship between the subjective well-being variables and the overall health of military cadets. The implications of these results for the professional training of the cadets are discussed.