Open AccessThe effect of mental war power on adjustment to military life
Author(s) -
Il Park,
Ko Young-gun
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
han'gug simlihag hoeji. san'eob mich jo'jig/korean journal of industrial and organizational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2671-4345
pISSN - 1229-0696
DOI - 10.24230/kjiop.v25i1.105-124
Subject(s) - psychology , depression (economics) , anxiety , power (physics) , mental health , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , physics , quantum mechanics , economics , macroeconomics
The present study was conducted to examine the effect of mental war power on adjusting to military life. The participants were 1327 soldiers from Seoul, Gyeonggi-do, Gangwon-do, Gyeongsang-do, and Chungchong-do. The present study utilized mental war power, subjective well-being, depression, anxiety, suicidal behavior, and social desirability scales. The results showed that the level of mental war power had a significant effect on psychological adjustment to military life even after social desirability level was statistically controlled. Based on these findings, implications of the present study and directions for future research were discussed.