en سلامت جانبازان يا معلولان Veterans or Handicapped Health توصیفی و نظرسنجی Descriptive & Survey <div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Aims</strong><strong>:</strong> Military personnel has high-risk occupations. Virtues and strengths as the values that govern the actions and behavior are suitable predictors for these jobs. We intend to examine the role of virtues and character strengths on psychological distress in military personnel comprehensively.<br> <strong>Instrument & Methods:</strong> This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on military men in Tehran from June 3, 2020, to October 31, 2020. The military personnel of Tehran were selected by available sampling. 410 Iranian military personnel completed the demographic questionnaire and the Virtues Inventory in Action (VIA-120) and Kessler Psychological Distress Scale (K10). Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, T-test, and ANOVA.<br> <strong>Findings:</strong> According to the results, the virtues of Justice and humanity had a higher average than other virtues. Among the character strengths, integrity, kindness, gratitude, persistence, open-mindedness, social intelligence, respectively, were six of the most important strengths with which military personnel described themselves. The virtue of temperance and transcendence were related to work experience. Only wisdom differed significantly at the academic level (p<0.05). No significant differences were found between the virtues in military ranks (p>0.05). All dimensions of virtues and character strengths were significantly associated with psychological distress (p<0.05). Nevertheless, only the dimension of transcendence had the power to predict psychological distress.<span dir="RTL"></span><br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Strengthening the dimension of transcendence can reduce psychological distress in military personnel. Recognizing the most important Virtues and character strengths in Military Personnel and discovering implications additional ways to promote the virtues, military personnel can improve their performance.<br> &nbsp;</div> Psychological Distress,Virtues,Character Strengths,Military Personnel, 23 29 http://ijwph.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-895-2&slc_lang=en&sid=1 A. Alizadeh 15300319475328460021347 15300319475328460021347 No Student Research Committee, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran S.M. Afkhami 15300319475328460021348 15300319475328460021348 No Professional University for Health, Aid and Treatment of YAHYAVI Nezaja, Tehran, Iran B. Dowran 15300319475328460021349 15300319475328460021349 No Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Life Style Institute, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran M. Ahmadi Tahoor 15300319475328460021350 15300319475328460021350 Yes Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran S.H. Salimi seyhossalimi@yahoo.com 15300319475328460021351 15300319475328460021351 No “Exercise Physiology Research Center institute for Life Style” and “Department of Clinical Psychology”, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran