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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Performance Science
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1536197
This article is part of the Research Topic Emotional Resilience for Wellbeing and Employability: The Role of Learning and Training – Volume II View all 9 articles

Bridging the Gap: Aligning Physical Work Capacity Testing with Actual Endurance Performance in Military Settings

Provisionally accepted
Jan Drozd Jan Drozd *Jiri Neubauer Jiri Neubauer Jiří Sekanina Jiří Sekanina Marek Sedlačík Marek Sedlačík
  • University of Defence, Brno, Czechia

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    This manuscript investigates the effectiveness of the PWC 170 test as a predictor of actual job performance in physically demanding military occupations. By analyzing the relationship between PWC 170 scores and objective measures of endurance performance (12-minute run), the study examines the test's validity in predicting success in tasks relevant to military personnel. This research aligns with the scope of Organizational Psychology, specifically focusing on personnel selection, performance assessment, and the development of valid and reliable tools for predicting job success in physically demanding roles. The findings have implications for optimizing recruitment and selection processes within military organizations.

    Keywords: Jan Drozd: Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, methodology, Writing -original draft, Writing -review & editing. Jiri Neubauer: Data curation, Formal analysis, investigation, Writing -review & editing. Jiří Sekanina: Conceptualization

    Received: 28 Nov 2024; Accepted: 06 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Drozd, Neubauer, Sekanina and Sedlačík. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Jan Drozd, University of Defence, Brno, Czechia

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