scholarly journals Using the Draw-a-Story Drawing Test to Predict Perceived Stress, Military Life Adjustment, and Resilience

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7383
Author(s):  
Juliet Jue ◽  
Jung-Hee Ha
Keyword(s):  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Emotional Content ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Drawing Test ◽  
Military Life ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
The Military

In this study, we investigated how effectively a Draw-a-Story drawing test can predict the perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience of soldiers. A total of 276 conscripted male soldiers participated in the study. The research tools included the Perceived Stress Scale, the Military Life Adjustment Scale, the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (Korean version), and the Draw-a-Story drawing test. The results of the correlation and regression analyses were as follows. First, perceived stress, military life adjustment, resilience, and DAS emotional content were all mutually correlated. The DAS self-image was positively correlated only with resilience. Second, emotional content predicted soldiers’ perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience at significant levels. Meanwhile, our regression analysis showed that self-image did not have significant predictive power. In this paper, we discuss the implications for predictive power of our findings regarding the two measures of DAS; we also propose that DAS could serve as a tool to predict the mental states of soldiers.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Army Soldiers’ Perceived Stress and Army Life Adjustment: Focusing on the Mediating Effect of Stress Response and the Moderating Effect of Cohesion

2020 ◽  
Vol 185 (9-10) ◽  
pp. e1743-e1749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jung Hee Ha ◽  
Juliet Jue ◽  
Yoojin Jang
Keyword(s):  
Stress Response ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Mediation Effect ◽  
Response Scale ◽  
Military Life ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Introduction South Korea maintains a mandatory military duty, and high percentage of conscript soldiers have difficulty adjusting to military life. The purpose of this study is to investigate the mediating effect of the stress response on the relationship between soldiers’ perceived stress and military life adjustment and to clarify the moderating effect of cohesion on this relationship. Materials and Methods The study’s participants were 285 Korean military soldiers who are obliged to serve in the military and they completed the Perceived Stress Scale, the Stress Response Scale, the Military Life Adjustment, and the Group Cohesion Scale. Analysis methods included descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, path analysis, bootstrapping, collinearity statistic, and hierarchical regression analysis. This research obtained the approval of the institutional review board of the university (HYI-18-229-1). Results First, a partial mediation effect of the stress response was found in the relationship between soldiers’ perceived stress and military life adjustment. That is, a high level of soldiers’ perceived stress was related to their military life maladjustment. Moreover, the greater the level of soldiers’ perceived stress, the greater the stress response, and, in turn, the greater the military life maladjustment. Second, we found the moderating effect of cohesion in the relationship between stress perception and military life adjustment. Conclusions The stress perceived by soldiers not only directly affects their military life adjustment but also indirectly affects their adjustment through the stress responses. In addition, soldiers’ levels of adjustment to military life change significantly based on cohesion levels only when they perceive less stress.

scholarly journals Examining the Moderating Effect of Mindfulness on the Relationship between Soldiers’ Perceived Stress and Hopelessness

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 10040
Author(s):  
Yoojin Jang ◽  
Jung-Hee Ha ◽  
Juliet Jue
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Military Life ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Special Circumstances ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Statistical Analysis

Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which one consciously pays attention to being fully present in the moment. Research has shown that mindfulness can lower anxiety, stress, and hopelessness. This fact may also apply to people in special circumstances, such as those in the military. Therefore, we examined the relationship between perceived stress, mindfulness, and hopelessness among military soldiers. Specifically, we verified the moderating effect of mindfulness on the relationship between perceived stress and mindfulness. We surveyed 309 Korean military soldiers and a total of 257 data were analyzed through descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. Our results showed that perceived stress, mindfulness, and hopelessness are interrelated, and that mindfulness moderated the influence of perceived stress on hopelessness. In other words, the lower the level of mindfulness, the greater the hopelessness when the perceived stress increased. This study suggests that conducting mindfulness training for soldiers can benefit soldiers’ adaptation to military life.

scholarly journals The Relationship of Spiritual Coping with Resilience and Perceived Stress: Validation of the Dutch Spiritual Coping Questionnaire

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Lilian Jans-Beken
Keyword(s):  
Religious Coping ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Scale Validation ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Spiritual Coping ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Resilience Scale ◽  
Negative Religious Coping ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study is to translate and validate the Spiritual Coping Questionnaire in Dutch (SCQ-nl), compare this questionnaire with a religious coping questionnaire, and assess the levels of religious and spiritual coping in association to resilience and perceived stress because these are important determinants in mental health issues. The Dutch-speaking respondents (N = 651, Mage = 45, SDage = 14, range = 18-80) answered the SCQ, Brief RCOPE, Perceived Stress Scale, and Brief Resilience Scale. Validation of the SCQ shows it to be a reliable and valid questionnaire for assessing positive and negative spiritual coping in Dutch-speaking individuals. Although the positive and negative religious coping scales are associated with positive and negative spiritual coping questionnaires, religious coping was not predictive of perceived stress or resilience. Multiple regression analyses demonstrate positive spiritual coping to be associated with lower perceived stress and higher resilience levels and negative spiritual coping to be associated with higher perceived stress and lower resilience levels in Dutch-speaking individuals. The outcome of this study is that the SCQ-nl is a valid and reliable measure for assessing positive and negative spiritual coping in scientific psychological research and descriptively in clinical practice.

scholarly journals How to Measure Financial Literacy?

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 324
Author(s):  
Marc Oliver Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Investment Decisions ◽  
Measurement Instruments ◽  
Stock Investment ◽  
Potential Alternative ◽  
Two Measures

Financial (il-)literacy and its effects have been studied extensively in recent years. The measurement of this concept is, however, tricky and numerous measurement instruments exist. In this paper, we study the connection between these measures empirically. We find that these measures are often only slightly related and that this is a so-far overlooked empirical problem in this field. As a result of our analysis, we suggest the combination of two measures as the best potential alternative to the existing measures. Finally, we analyze the predictive power of this suggested measure for stock investment decisions.

Warrior Saints, Warfare, and the Hagiography of Ælfric of Eynsham

Traditio ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 27-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Magennis
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Military Leaders ◽  
Military Life ◽  
Aelfric Of Eynsham ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
Scholarly Attention

Among the saints celebrated by the major vernacular Anglo-Saxon hagiographer Ælfric of Eynsham, one interesting group that has not received much scholarly attention is his warrior saints. In his lives of these saints Ælfric the monk, who has abjured violence, proclaims the spiritual achievements of men who have been military leaders and of ordinary soldiers serving in the ranks. The most famous of Ælfric's soldiers, St. Martin, was an unwilling one, but others commended by him were not unhappy to embrace the military life, even indeed when serving under pagans. Warrior saints were a distinctive and popular class of saints in the earlier Christian Mediterranean world. In the writings of Ælfric, as in Anglo-Saxon hagiography generally, they are a small group, but they are a group that illustrates strikingly Ælfric's approach to writing about saints, and study of them helps to throw light on the work he intended vernacular hagiography to perform. Part of that work, as argued below, was to provide ideologically suitable spiritual heroes for the faithful. But how should the potentially problematic group of warrior saints be presented, whose lives combine sanctity and violence and whose exploits might have disconcerting associations with the world of secular heroism?

Cavalry identity and democratic ideology in early fourth-century Athens

2002 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 102-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Polly Low
Keyword(s):  
Distinct Group ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Peloponnesian War ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Military ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

In 395 BC, after just under a decade of (nominal) peace between Athens and Sparta, the Corinthian War broke out, and, for the first time since the end of the Peloponnesian War, forces of Athenian cavalry were despatched to fight on behalf of their own city. The surviving historical narratives of the events at Haliartus in that year, and at Corinth and Coronea the next, are often incomplete, inconsistent, or both; the detail of what contribution – if any – was made by the cavalry to the campaign is no exception to that pattern. My aim in what follows, however, is not to attempt to reach the truth of what really happened in those engagements, but rather to look at a small group of material produced by and about members of the cavalry forces involved in the campaign, and to explore some of the ways in which the military exploits of this stereotypically rich and élite section of Athenian society are represented in the city – especially in contexts with particularly democratic associations. In doing so, I want to investigate the idea that Athenian attitudes to the cavalry undergo a significant, and hostile, shift at the end of the Peloponnesian War: the claim, that is, that the cavalry had always been a distinct group in Athens, but, in the 390s, that distinction comes in the form of infamy rather than fame. But I also hope to demonstrate the necessity of adopting a more nuanced approach to the study of the formation of these (positive or negative) attitudes: the image of the cavalry is shaped by the views of those outside that class, but also by the cavalry themselves; moreover, the cavalry are not necessarily simply reactive in their self-presentation, but can be allowed a more proactive role in the shaping of their own self-image.

The Effects of Ego Resiliency with Emotional Regulation Factors on the Military Life Adjustment of the NAVY

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
Young-Joo Jung ◽  
Mi-Young Roh ◽  
Hye-Young Kim ◽  
Yi-Sub Kwak
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Military Life ◽  
The Military ◽  
Ego Resiliency

scholarly journals Transition From the Military Into Civilian Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Cooper ◽  
Nick Caddick ◽  
Lauren Godier ◽  
Alex Cooper ◽  
Matt Fossey
Keyword(s):  
Social Theory ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Service Personnel ◽  
Transition Outcomes ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Military Life ◽  
The Military

In this article, we employ the theoretical framework and concepts of Pierre Bourdieu to examine the notion of “transition” from military to civilian life for U.K. Armed Forces personnel. We put Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, capital, and field to work in highlighting key differences between military and civilian life. The use of social theory allows us to describe the cultural legacy of military life and how this may influence the posttransition course of veterans’ lives. There may be positive and negative transition outcomes for service personnel when moving into civilian life, and by applying Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts, we explain how such outcomes can be understood. We suggest that the “rules” are different in military environments compared to civilian ones and that service personnel must navigate a complex cultural transition when moving between environments. There are numerous and significant implications—including policy applications—from understanding transition through a Bourdieusian lens, and these are highlighted throughout.

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