USMC Resilience Project Notice of Data Availability in the Qualitative Data Repository

Abstract

This project was a long-term research effort to examine the socio-cultural and lived experience aspects of stress and resilience among Marines. The overall effort was specifically designed to address a gap in resilience research, which was largely based in biomedical and psychological theories, through leveraging social science theory, methods, and expertise to understand the personal and contextual aspects of Marine resilience. This dataset comprises 39 interview transcripts. Interviews were of varying length and were conducted in 2012 at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia and Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina. Participants included Marine officers and enlisted Marines, predominately those involved with the early training of Marine enlisted recruits and officer candidates. Also included in the archive are an annotated bibliography of related scholarly, military, and news source material, a project overview, original human subjects protection documentation, and examples of public domain applied research outcomes from the project. This a robust data set covering issues related to the lived experiences of U.S. Marines. This notice of data availability provides an overview of the project, the data set, and other available materials, as well as instructions for accessing the project.