Measurement of Severity of Combat, Involvement in Harming Civilians and Prisoners, and Personal Vulnerability Load

2018 ◽  
pp. 115-130
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Dohrenwend ◽  
Thomas J. Yager ◽  
Melanie M. Wall ◽  
Ben G. Adams ◽  
Nick Turse
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Qualification Test ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Male Veterans ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Personal Vulnerability

This chapter presents detailed measures of each of the three factors that most strongly affect the psychological impact of the Vietnam war on U.S. male veterans. These descriptions build on the detailed accounts in Chapter 2 of the use of military records to develop more comprehensive measures of war-zone experiences. The measures of harm to civilians and prisoners are based on veteran self-reports. The measures of pre-Vietnam vulnerability load include data from military records, such as the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), pre-war education levels, and NVVRS interview data that enable diagnoses of important types of psychiatric disorder other than PTSD. Less central, but perhaps no less important, other risk factor variables and their measurement are set forth in later chapters at the point they are first introduced.

The Myth of the Troubled and Scorned Vietnam Veteran

1992 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric T. Dean
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vietnam Veteran ◽  
War Zone ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Vietnam War ◽  
One Year

In the United States since the conclusion of the Vietnam War, the Vietnam veteran has become known as a neglected, troubled, and even scorned individual. According to this view, the Vietnam veteran's problems began in Vietnam where he was forced to participate in a brutal and disturbing war in which he was under fire twenty-four hours a day. The enemy, the wily and tenacious Vietcong and North Vietnamese regulars, were not always clearly defined nor were they above hiding behind or using civilians, leading to the unintentional – and sometimes intentional – killing by American forces of noncombatants, including women and children. Due to the military's policy of limiting the tour of duty in the war zone to one year, combat groups lacked cohesion and suffered from low morale, resulting in the excessive use of marijuana and heroin and an eventual breakdown of discipline, leading to the “fragging” of officers who attempted to reimpose order.

Self-Reported Inattention in Early Adolescence in a Community Sample

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura L. Connors ◽  
Jennifer Connolly ◽  
Maggie E. Toplak
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Early Adolescence ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Parental Reports ◽  
Sample Method

Objective : Inattention is typically associated with ADHD, but less research has been done to examine the correlates of self-reported inattention in youth in a community sample. Method: Associations among self-reported inattention, parent-reported inattention, and self-reported psychopathology in children aged 10 to 11 years are examined. Self-reported inattention is also examined as a predictor of outcomes in peer relationships and victimization at ages 10 and 11 and in peer relationships at ages 14 and 15. Results: Children’s self-reports of inattention correlate with parental reports and are associated with self-reports of hyperactivity-impulsivity, depression, anxiety, and conduct problems. Participants in the high-inattention group are at greater risk for victimization and poor peer relationships at ages 10 and 11 years after covarying for psychopathology ratings. Self-reported inattention uniquely predicts poor peer relationships longitudinally at age 14 and 15 years. Conclusion: This study highlights the importance of examining children’s self-report of inattention and identifies inattention as a risk factor for current and later outcomes.

Surviving Vietnam

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce P. Dohrenwend ◽  
Nick Turse ◽  
Thomas J. Yager ◽  
Melanie M. Wall
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Psychological Consequences ◽  
Post Traumatic Stress ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Impact

Surviving Vietnam: Psychological Consequences of the War for U.S. Veterans presents a unique combination of historical material, military records of combat exposure, clinical diagnoses of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and interviews with representative samples of veterans surveyed both a little over decade after the war’s conclusion in the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Study (NVVRS), and again nearly four decades after the war’s conclusion in the National Vietnam Veterans Longitudinal Study (Longitudinal Study). It focuses specifically on veterans’ war-zone experiences and the development in some of PTSD, a relatively new and controversial diagnosis. The monograph begins with a brief history of the Vietnam war that provides context for the discussions of the relevance to their mental health outcomes of the severity of veterans’ exposure to combat, their personal involvement in harm to civilians and prisoners, their race/ethnicity, and their military assignments. It discusses nurses’ experiences in Vietnam and the psychological impact on families of veterans’ chronic war-related PTSD. The monograph then examines factors affecting surveyed veterans’ post-war readjustment, including the effects of changing public attitudes toward the war and the veterans’ own appraisals of the impact of the war on their lives after the war. It concludes by discussing the policy implications of its research findings.

Military Officer Aptitude in the All-Volunteer Force

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Franklin Cancian ◽  
Michael W. Klein
Keyword(s):  
College Graduates ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
College Degree ◽  
Qualification Test ◽  
Longitudinal Surveys ◽  
General Classification ◽  
Enlisted Personnel ◽  
Volunteer Force ◽  
Possible Cause

We show a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful decline in the aptitude of commissioned officers in the marine corp from 1980 to 2014 as measured by their scores on the General Classification Test. This result contrasts with the widely studied increase in the quality of enlisted personnel since 1973 when conscription ended. As a possible cause for this decline, we focus on the fact that, during this period, marine officers had to have a 4-year college degree and there has been an expansion of the pool of young Americans in college. To corroborate this hypothesis, we show that there has been a similar decline in scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Test for responders to the 1979 and 1997 National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth among college graduates but not for the overall set of respondents.

scholarly journals ASSESSING THE DYNAMICS OF DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION MESSAGES ACCORDING TO THE DATA OF ELECTRONIC MASS MEDIA

2020 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
D. L. Fedorchuk ◽  
S. M. Marchenkov ◽  
O. M. Naumchak
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Growth Rate ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Information Dissemination ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Electronic Communications ◽  
Psychological Influence ◽  
The Impact

The main directions of destructive information and psychological influence of the enemy on the population of Ukraine, leaders and personnel of the military administration, the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other law enforcement agencies, issues of the analysis of the dissemination of information messages (content) of the electronic media which contain the destructive information and psychological impact are considered. The model of social networks as a means of mass communication, which is used for the realization of destructive information and psychological influence is considered. The main components of the model are the user, his thoughts (views), influence, trust and reputation. The process of influencing to the user by means of social networks through innovation and its dissemination is considered. Indicators that can be used to characterize the process and to evaluate the impact: “likes”, “dislikes”, “reposts”, “views”, and “comments” are also provided. The process of tracking the destructive influences contained in information messages from the point of view of destructive informational and psychological influence is described. The system of indicators of dynamics of distribution of information messages on the Internet is analyzed. The necessity of fixing on certain points of time and use of additional indicators: “number of drawings”, “absolute growth”, “growth rate”, “growth rate” is grounded and the order of their calculation is given. The logical and structural scheme of calculating the dynamics of information message dissemination by means of the Internet has been developed. It is determined that to solve the problem of automation of tracking and visualization of the dynamics of information dissemination requires specialized software that will read the primary indicators from certain publications of electronic communications and social networks and calculate the proposed indicators of the dynamics of information message propagation.

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