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. 2022 Apr 22;34(6):706-721.
doi: 10.1080/08995605.2022.2057788. eCollection 2022.

The role of coast guard courage in the relationship between personality and organizational commitment

Ibrahim Sani Mert  1 , Kemal Köksal  2
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The role of coast guard courage in the relationship between personality and organizational commitment

Ibrahim Sani Mert et al. Mil Psychol. .

Abstract

Courageous behaviors are risky and devoted actions performed primarily for the benefit of others, and they closely relate to many beneficial organizational (e.g., commitment) outcomes. Even courage plays a crucial role in many professions' results; investigating it in military content is a primary issue. This paper examined the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and organizational commitment and the moderator role of courage in this relationship by focusing on coast guards. Cross-sectional survey data (n = 512) were obtained from employees and analyzed using the least square method regression analysis. The results showed that the Conscientiousness trait is a strong antecedent for organizational commitment, and courage emerges as a moderator for the relationship between personality traits and organizational commitment. High courage strengthened the effect of Conscientiousness-Emotional Stability on normative commitment, Extraversion-Agreeableness on affective commitment, Openness on continuance, and normative commitment. Practitioners might recruit high conscientious, agreeable, emotionally stable, and courageous candidates considering correlational and moderating effects.

Keywords: Big-Five; Courage; coast guards; commitment; military; non-western culture.

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Extraversion and AC.
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Agreeableness and AC.
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Conscientiousness and NC.
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Emotional stability and NC.
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Openness to experience and CC.
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Openness to experience and NC.
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