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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2020.21.8.501

Military Life Pattern of Maladjusted Soldiers  

Lee, Eun-Joo (Department of Nursing, Korea Bible University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.21, no.8, 2020 , pp. 501-511 More about this Journal
Abstract
This qualitative research examined the experiences and patterns of military life of service maladaptive soldiers. The research site was the place where the soldiers of the A-adaptive soldiers' healing program were conducted, and the study period was conducted from September 2016 to December 2017. Maladaptive soldiers' military life experience pattern was analyzed, and their experience consisted of three domains (early domain after joining the army, middle domain after joining the army, and last domain where they failed to adapt themselves), five cultural themes, 12 categories, and 29 attributes. The cultural themes of maladaptive soldiers in their military life experiences were as follows: facing unfamiliar military culture, hardship, being left alone in a group, pain becoming unbearable, and the last choice of leaving a painful military life. Maladaptive soldiers attempted suicide after they failed to overcome the psychological pain, but they needed help during their early period of adaptation. Moreover, during their middle period of adaptation, they needed guidance for their immature coping strategies, and ultimately they had misperceptions about their death together with a pessimistic view about their life. These results are expected to be used as basic data for the development of mental nursing arbitration programs and suicide prevention projects to help service maladaptive soldiers.
Keywords
Maladaptive Soldiers; Military Culture; Ethnographic Research; Qualitative Research; Nursing;
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