Military stress and performance: A practical look at vital issues of stress in the military service

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Shay
Keyword(s):  
Military Service ◽  
Military Stress ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Military

scholarly journals Study of Indicators of Nervous-Psychological Resistance and Social Maturity in Military Servants During the Message of Psycho

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Psychological Support ◽  
Social Maturity ◽  
Psychological Maturity ◽  
Psychological Influence ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Military

The article is devoted to theoretical and empirical research, important personal characteristics of servicemen: neuropsychological stability and socio-psychological maturity, which are the focus of psychological influence by the psychologist of the military unit at all major stages of military activity from conscription to discharge. The article empirically examines the system of relationships between indicators of neuropsychological stability, socio-psychological maturity and social relations in military servicemen at the stages of adaptation and performance of tasks. A correlation analysis was performed, according to Pearson, with indicators of neuropsychological stability, social maturity and the quality of relationships with the immediate social environment. As a result of the analysis of the obtained data, it was found that social maturity is directly related to the quality of social relations in a serviceman, both in the family and in the military, and tends to increase during military service. The level of stability of neuropsychological stability associated with the growth of social maturity due to the reflex component. The servicemen performing the assigned tasks have a positive dynamics of increasing the level of social maturity due to the reflexive and moral component, which indicates their personal and professional growth due to organized psychological support. The tasks and the expected result of psychological support at the stages of adaptation and performance of tasks as assigned are determined. The main vectors of psychological influence on the part of a military psychologist are indicated. to increase the level of neuropsychological stability and socio-psychological maturity in the military.

Suicide Risk Assessment with Combat Veterans—Part I

2017 ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher G. AhnAllen ◽  
Abby Adler ◽  
Phillip M. Kleespies
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Combat Veterans ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
Suicide Risk Assessment ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Military Stress ◽  
The Military

This chapter provides a background for understanding suicide risk assessment in combat veterans. Given that military veterans constitute a unique cultural group, the chapter provides an overview of specific experiences that are germane to military service, including deployment to combat. It first reviews general military culture, including reasons for joining the military, traditions and values within the military, and specific details associated with the personnel. The next part of the chapter focuses on military stress that can be experienced with deployment, including the activities related to leaving home, engaging in combat service, and then the experiences related to returning home. Finally, military culture is considered as a potential barrier to accessing mental health care for veterans.

Where Are They Now?

Crisis ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yossi Levi-Belz ◽  
Orit Krispin ◽  
Giora Galilee ◽  
Ehud Bodner ◽  
Alan Apter
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Adolescent Suicide ◽  
Suicide Attempts ◽  
Psychosocial Adaptation ◽  
Suicide Attempters ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Military

Abstract. Background: While a history of suicide attempts has been identified as the most powerful risk factor among adults, it is not clear if this is also true for the adolescent population. Our aim was to examine the differences between attempters and nonattempters in the years following a documented suicide attempt and to investigate the adolescents' prognosis in terms of suicidal behavior and adjustment. Method: Military records at induction and during active military service were used to compare 105 adolescent suicide attempters with 105 matched controls. All were rated on cognitive/educational performance and psychosocial adaptation, psychological health diagnoses, and performance during their military service. Results: Suicide attempters had higher school dropout rates and lower scores on educational indicators. They registered more incidents of disciplinary and adjustment problems in the military. However, the overall prognosis of the suicide attempters appeared surprisingly good. No significant differences were found between the groups in suicide risk or in behavior in their military service. Limitations: Data were derived from the computerized records and no direct interviews were conducted with the participants. Conclusion: Attempted suicide in adolescence appears to be different in nature from attempted suicide in adulthood, and can be viewed as an indicator of social distress rather than as major risk factor of completed suicide. Implications in terms of intervention and prevention are discussed.

scholarly journals Demographic Variation in Military Life Stress and Perceived Support Among Military Spouses

2021 ◽  
Vol 186 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 214-221
Author(s):  
Nida H Corry ◽  
Christianna S Williams ◽  
Sharmini Radakrishnan ◽  
Hope S McMaster ◽  
Alicia C Sparks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Military Spouses ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Service Members ◽  
Military Life ◽  
Military Stress ◽  
The Military

ABSTRACT Introduction Military spouses play a critical role in supporting military service members, and thus, their experiences may have a significant impact on the well-being, readiness, and resilience of the U.S. Armed Forces. Research suggests that military spouses experience unique stressors as a result of military life, but few studies have assessed demographic factors associated with their experiences of military life and perceived support. Materials and Methods Using data from the Millennium Cohort Family Study, a nationwide survey of 9,872 married spouses of service members with 2 to 5 years of military service, this study examined differences in experiences of military life and perceived support across multiple understudied subgroups of military spouses. Key outcomes included military-related stressors (e.g., deployment-related experiences), perceived social support, and perceived military efforts to provide support. Results Military life stress and perceived support differed across military spouse, service member, and family characteristics. Results indicated that spouses who are older than age 35 or are married to enlisted service members in the Army, Navy, or Marines are more likely to experience heightened military stress or less perceived social support. Dual-military couples reported experiencing less stress associated with military life and perceiving more social support and support from the military, compared with spouses who have never served in the military. Conclusion These findings may help guide effective channeling of resources and outreach to potentially vulnerable military families.

Study on the Adoption of Competence as a Purpose of the Training of Forces

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-345
Author(s):  
Benoni Sfârlog ◽  
Ștefania Bumbuc ◽  
Constantin Grigoraș
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Military

AbstractIn recent decades, a new paradigm marks the conceptual transformation through which competencies take the place of objectives in education, in general and in training and professional development, in particular. It becomes necessary and useful to analyze the necessity, possibility and opportunity of focusing the instruction on competences. Thus they acquire, in an integrative way, the triple state of a referential system for quality and performance in the military actions, of the objective of the instructive-formative process, and of the result of learning.

The Perpetuation of Gender Norms and White Hegemonic Patriarchy in the South African Defence Force as Represented in André van der Merwe’s Moffie (2006)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Nolen Fortuin
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Novel ◽  
White Family ◽  
White Children ◽  
White Masculinity ◽  
Party Government ◽  
Compulsory Military Service ◽  
The Military

With the institution of compulsory military service in South Africa in 1948 the National Party government effected a tool well shaped for the construction of hegemonic masculinities. Through this, and other structures like schools and families, white children were shaped into submissive abiding citizens. Due to the brutal nature of a militarised society, gender roles become strictly defined and perpetuated. As such, white men’s time served on the border also “toughened” them up and shaped them into hegemonic copies of each other, ready to enforce patriarchal and racist ideologies. In this article, I look at how the novel Moffie by André Carl van der Merwe (2006) illustrates hegemonic white masculinity in South Africa and how it has long been strictly regulated to perpetuate the well-being of the white family as representative of the capitalist state. I discuss the novel by looking at the ways in which the narrator is marked by service in the military, which functions as a socialising agent, but as importantly by the looming threat of the application of the term “moffie” to himself, by self or others.  

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