"Once a Soldier, always a Soldier" until you're not: The effect of identity loss on mental health and well-being following military discharge.

IF 1.1 4区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Cameron Grant, Lydia Woodyatt, Henry Bowen, Jonathan Lane
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Abstract

An report from the Australian Royal Commission on Veteran Suicide has suggested that transition-related losses (loss of purpose, identity, and culture) adversely affect veteran mental illness and suicide risk. Subjective Loss of Self Theory posits that significant life transitions can cause a range of changes to group memberships, relationships, and roles and consequently can disrupt our sense of identity. To the extent that these disruptions lead to a subjective feeling of a loss as to who one was (past self) or will become (future self) can create a vulnerability to mental health and well-being challenges. Across two studies involving American (n = 179) and Australian veterans (n - 379), both subjective loss of past and future self were associated with worse mental health and well-being, with loss of future self being the stronger predictor. Additionally, a negative discharge experience directly predicted worse mental health and well-being and increased subjective loss of past and future self. However, Study 2 demonstrated that the effects of negative discharge experiences were fully or partially mediated by the perception that these experiences amounted to military institutional betrayal. Collectively, these results indicate that military discharge can result in identity disruption via a perceived lost sense of self, increasing vulnerability to mental health and well-being challenges. Additionally, negative discharge experiences (especially when perceived as institutional betrayal) can exacerbate these sense of self losses and mental health and wellbeing vulnerability, both directly through the experience of betrayal, and indirectly through the resultant increased losses of past and future self.

“一朝当兵,终身当兵”直到退役:退伍后身份丧失对心理健康和幸福感的影响。
澳大利亚退伍军人自杀皇家委员会的一份报告表明,与过渡相关的损失(失去目标、身份和文化)会对退伍军人的精神疾病和自杀风险产生不利影响。主观自我丧失理论认为,重大的生活转变会导致群体成员、人际关系和角色的一系列变化,从而破坏我们的认同感。在某种程度上,这些干扰会导致一种主观的失落感,即一个人是谁(过去的自我)或将成为谁(未来的自我),这可能会导致心理健康和福祉挑战的脆弱性。在两项涉及美国(n = 179)和澳大利亚(n - 379)退伍军人的研究中,对过去和未来自我的主观丧失都与较差的心理健康和幸福感有关,而对未来自我的丧失是更强的预测因素。此外,消极的出院经历直接预示着更差的心理健康和幸福感,以及对过去和未来自我的主观丧失。然而,研究2表明,负面退伍经历的影响完全或部分地由这些经历相当于军事制度背叛的感知所介导。总的来说,这些结果表明,退伍可能会通过感知到的自我意识丧失而导致身份破坏,增加对心理健康和福祉挑战的脆弱性。此外,消极的出院经历(特别是当被视为制度背叛时)会加剧这些自我丧失感和心理健康和福祉脆弱性,直接通过背叛的经历,间接通过由此导致的过去和未来自我损失的增加。
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Military Psychology
Military Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
CiteScore
2.30
自引率
18.20%
发文量
80
期刊介绍: Military Psychology is the quarterly journal of Division 19 (Society for Military Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. The journal seeks to facilitate the scientific development of military psychology by encouraging communication between researchers and practitioners. The domain of military psychology is the conduct of research or practice of psychological principles within a military environment. The journal publishes behavioral science research articles having military applications in the areas of clinical and health psychology, training and human factors, manpower and personnel, social and organizational systems, and testing and measurement.
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