Ha Jung Hee, Jue Juliet, Jang Yoojin
Graduate School of Counseling Psychology, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Korea.
Department of Art Therapy, Hanyang Cyber University, 220 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Korea.
Mil Med. 2020 Sep 18;185(9-10):e1743-e1749. doi: 10.1093/milmed/usaa114.
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.
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).
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.
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.
韩国实行义务兵役制，很大比例的应征士兵难以适应军队生活。本研究的目的是调查应激反应在士兵感知压力与军队生活适应之间关系中的中介作用，并阐明凝聚力对这种关系的调节作用。
本研究的参与者为285名韩国义务兵，他们完成了感知压力量表、应激反应量表、军队生活适应量表和团体凝聚力量表。分析方法包括描述性统计、相关性分析、路径分析、自助法、共线性统计和分层回归分析。本研究获得了大学机构审查委员会的批准（HYI-18-229-1）。
首先，在士兵感知压力与军队生活适应之间的关系中发现了应激反应的部分中介作用。也就是说，士兵的高感知压力水平与他们的军队生活适应不良有关。此外，士兵的感知压力水平越高，应激反应就越大，进而军队生活适应不良程度就越高。其次，我们发现凝聚力在压力感知与军队生活适应之间的关系中具有调节作用。
士兵感知到的压力不仅直接影响他们的军队生活适应，还通过应激反应间接影响他们的适应。此外，只有当士兵感知到的压力较小时，他们对军队生活的适应水平才会根据凝聚力水平发生显著变化。
