Rosen L N, Martin L
Department of Military Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, MCMR-UWI-A, Washington, DC 20307-5100, USA.
Mil Med. 1996 Nov;161(11):665-8.
This study examined the impact of a history of childhood abuse and neglect on soldiers' adaptation to Army life including commitment to the Army, confidence in leaders, and perceptions of unit cohesion and readiness. Childhood abuse and neglect were measured by the 30-item Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) which comprises four subscales-sexual abuse, physical-emotional abuse, emotional neglect, and physical neglect. Information was obtained through a survey of 1,051 male soldiers and 305 female soldiers from combat support and combat service support units located at three different Army posts in the United States. The study found that of the four CTQ subscales, emotional neglect was the only variable predicting lower unit cohesion and lower confidence in leaders for both male and female soldiers even after controlling for concurrent psychological symptoms and sociodemographic variables. Emotional neglect during childhood may have a negative impact on soldiers' ability to access social support within their units, a factor that has been shown to prevent psychological breakdown in combat.
本研究考察了童年期受虐待和被忽视的经历对士兵适应军队生活的影响，包括对军队的忠诚度、对领导的信任度以及对部队凝聚力和战备状态的认知。童年期受虐待和被忽视的情况通过30项儿童创伤问卷（CTQ）进行测量，该问卷包含四个分量表——性虐待、身体-情感虐待、情感忽视和身体忽视。通过对来自美国三个不同陆军基地的战斗支援和战斗勤务支援单位的1051名男士兵和305名女士兵进行调查获取信息。研究发现，在CTQ的四个分量表中，情感忽视是唯一能预测男女士兵部队凝聚力较低和对领导信任度较低的变量，即便在控制了同时出现的心理症状和社会人口统计学变量之后也是如此。童年期的情感忽视可能会对士兵在其所在部队中获得社会支持的能力产生负面影响，而社会支持这一因素已被证明可预防战斗中的心理崩溃。
