School of Social Work, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel.
Anxiety Stress Coping. 2010 Oct;23(5):547-62. doi: 10.1080/10615801003640023.
The study aimed to assess the associations of psychological and military variables with distress and performance evaluation among 168 Israeli soldiers who took part in evacuating fellow Israeli civilians in the summer of 2005 during the disengagement from Gaza. Coping, mastery, stress appraisals, mental preparation, unit cohesion, and psychological distress were assessed at T1, one to two weeks before the disengagement. A sub-sample of 68 of the 168 soldiers completed the distress measure again at T2, eight to nine weeks after T1, together with performance evaluation of the disengagement task. The main findings indicated positive associations of T1 distress with high T1 emotion-focused coping, and negative associations with education and T1 mastery. Emotion-focused coping at T1 predicted low performance evaluation at T2, while mental preparation at T1 predicted high performance evaluation at T2. Stress appraisals at T1 were found to be an important mediator of the associations of T1 coping, mastery, unit cohesion, and mental preparation with T1 distress. Similar mediator results were found for T2 performance evaluation.
本研究旨在评估心理和军事变量与 168 名以色列士兵的困扰和绩效评估之间的关联，这些士兵在 2005 年夏天撤离加沙的脱离行动中参与了撤离以色列平民的行动。在脱离行动前一到两周的 T1 时评估了应对策略、掌握程度、压力评估、心理准备、单位凝聚力和心理困扰。168 名士兵中的 68 名士兵的一个子样本在 T2 时再次完成了困扰测量，即 T1 后八到九周，同时还评估了脱离任务的绩效。主要发现表明，T1 困扰与高 T1 情绪聚焦应对呈正相关，与教育和 T1 掌握程度呈负相关。T1 的情绪聚焦应对策略预测 T2 的低绩效评估，而 T1 的心理准备则预测 T2 的高绩效评估。研究还发现，T1 时的压力评估是 T1 时应对策略、掌握程度、单位凝聚力和心理准备与 T1 困扰之间关联的重要中介因素。T2 时的绩效评估也出现了类似的中介结果。
