The mental health of non-commissioned soldiers deployed to Boko-Haram zones in Nigeria: Examining the roles of rank and other armed service characteristics.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Epub Date: 2023-06-21 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2023.2226614

Charles Sunday Umeh, Babatola Dominic Olawa, James Abel

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Abstract

Background and objectives: This study examined the roles of rank and its interaction with armed service characteristics, including combat exposure, frequency of deployments, and length of service on psychological distress among non-commissioned military officers (NCOs).

Methods: A cross-sectional sample of 256 NCOs (Mean_age = 34.10 ± 7.33) of the Nigerian Army deployed to fight Boko Haram in North-East, Nigeria, participated in the study. Data were collected using self-report instruments and analyzed using multiple linear regression.

Results: The ranks of corporal and lance corporal/private (LCP) were associated with greater psychological distress than the sergeants. However, corporals had higher psychological distress than sergeants and LCPs. Rank accounted for almost twice the variances in psychological distress more than other service characteristics. LCPs had adverse mental health at increased service length than sergeants and corporals. Also, LCPs were more vulnerable to stress at higher combat experience than the corporals.

Conclusion: Other factors may be inherent in rank effect on psychological distress beyond combat experience, deployments, and service length. Nevertheless, these service characteristics are important in the rank effect on psychological distress. Identifying relevant combat-related structural problems may additionally explain the association of rank with psychological distress beyond combat experience, deployments, and service length among NCOs.

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部署在尼日利亚 Boko-Haram 地区的军士的心理健康：研究军衔和其他兵役特征的作用。

背景和目的：本研究探讨了军衔及其与军队服役特征（包括战斗经历、部署频率和服役时间）之间的相互作用对士官心理压力的影响：本研究探讨了军衔及其与兵役特征（包括作战经历、部署频率和服役时间）之间的相互作用对军士（NCOs）心理压力的影响：参与研究的横断面样本包括 256 名部署在尼日利亚东北部打击 "博科圣地 "组织的尼日利亚军队军士（平均年龄 = 34.10 ± 7.33）。研究使用自我报告工具收集数据，并使用多元线性回归进行分析：与中士相比，下士和上等兵（LCP）的心理压力更大。然而，下士的心理压力高于中士和上等兵。军衔造成的心理困扰差异几乎是其他兵种特征的两倍。与中士和下士相比，低级警员在服役时间增加时心理健康状况不佳。此外，与下士相比，战斗经验越丰富的 LCP 更容易受到压力的影响：结论：除作战经验、部署和服役时间外，军衔对心理压力的影响可能还与其他因素有关。尽管如此，这些服役特征对于军衔对心理压力的影响还是很重要的。在军士中，除了作战经验、部署情况和服役时间外，识别与作战相关的结构性问题也可以解释军衔与心理困扰之间的关系。

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Anxiety Stress and Coping Multiple-

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.