Herrera Catherine J, Owens Gina P
JFK Special Warfare Center and School.
J Clin Psychol. 2015 Apr;71(4):323-33. doi: 10.1002/jclp.22138. Epub 2014 Dec 22.
Modern military missions place numerous demands on service members, including tactical, personal, and cultural challenges. The purpose of this study was to explore how domains of multicultural personality (cultural empathy, open-mindedness, social initiative, emotional stability, and flexibility) and combat exposure relate to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in service members.
Participants (N = 163) completed the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire, Combat Exposure Scale, and PTSD Checklist-Military as part of an online survey. The majority of participants were Caucasian (87%), mean age was 33 years, and all were deployed at least once to Iraq or Afghanistan
Regression results indicated that higher levels of combat exposure and open-mindedness and lower levels of flexibility and emotional stability were significant predictors of higher PTSD severity. The interactions between combat exposure and flexibility and combat exposure and openness were also significant.
Higher levels of flexibility and emotional stability seem particularly important in their association with lower PTSD severity for service members.
现代军事任务对军人提出了诸多要求，包括战术、个人和文化方面的挑战。本研究的目的是探讨多元文化人格的各个领域（文化同理心、开放性思维、社交主动性、情绪稳定性和灵活性）以及战斗经历与军人创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）之间的关系。
参与者（N = 163）完成了多元文化人格问卷、战斗经历量表和军事版创伤后应激障碍检查表，作为在线调查的一部分。大多数参与者是白种人（87%），平均年龄为33岁，所有人都至少被部署到伊拉克或阿富汗一次。
回归结果表明，较高的战斗经历水平、开放性思维以及较低的灵活性和情绪稳定性是创伤后应激障碍严重程度较高的显著预测因素。战斗经历与灵活性以及战斗经历与开放性思维之间的交互作用也很显著。
对于军人而言，较高的灵活性和情绪稳定性与较低的创伤后应激障碍严重程度相关，这一点似乎尤为重要。
