Psychological readiness to endure the difficulty during training and battlefield is essential to develop a mentally strong armed uniform recruit. In order to assess their current psychological enthusiasm of armed uniform recruit. The aim of this study was to identify the differences in psychological readiness among three armed uniform package unit based on the seven readiness factors. A total of 278 respondents consist of 131 respondents from Suksis, 78 respondents from Palapes and 69 respondents from Wataniah participated in this study. They were asked to complete a Psychological Skills Inventory for Sport (PSIS-R-5) questionnaire in this study. The questionnaire contained with seven factors, which are motivation, confidence, anxiety control, mental preparation, team emphasis, concentration, and cognition. The questionnaire used 5 scales likert from scale 1 for ‘Strongly Disagree’ to scale 5 for ‘Strongly Disagree’. The result shows that there are significant different of psychological readiness between these armed uniform package units. Wataniah unit has the greatest psychological readiness by manipulated six from seven factors compared to the Suksis and Palapes. Among seven factors of psychological readiness, six of them shows that there are significant different between Suksis, Palapes and Wataniah which are motivation, confidence, anxiety control, team emphasis, concentration, and cognition except mental preparation that not show any significant different among the three-armed uniform package unit. In conclusion, although the armed uniform unit has a similar role and practice, however, psychological readiness among the show a significant different except mental preparation. This indicates that the participant has no idea about why they choose to participant in armed uniform package unit.
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