Our findings suggest that COAs have a less healthy lifestyle and more mental health difficulties above and beyond the poorer economic environment they live in.

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543www.cmj.hr Aim To assess whether demographic characteristics, selfrated health status, coping behaviors, satisfaction with important interpersonal relationships, financial situation, and current overall quality of life are determinants of sick leave duration in professional soldiers of the Slovenian Armed Forces.Methods In 2008, 448 military personnel on active duty in the Slovenian Armed Forces were invited to participate in the study and 390 returned the completed questionnaires (response rate 87%). The questionnaires used were the self-rated health scale, sick leave scale, life satisfaction scale, Folkman-Lazarus' Ways of Coping Questionnaire, and a demographic data questionnaire. To partition the variance across a wide variety of indicators of participants' experiences, ordinal modeling procedures were used.Results A multivariate ordinal regression model, explaining 24% of sick leave variance, showed that the following variables significantly predicted longer sick leave duration: female sex (estimate, 1.185; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.579-1.791), poorer self-rated health (estimate, 3.243; 95% CI, 1.755-4.731), lower satisfaction with relationships with coworkers (estimate, 1.333; 95% CI, 0.399-2.267), and lower education (estimate, 1.577; 95% CI, 0.717-2.436). The impact of age and coping mechanisms was not significant. ConclusionLonger sick leave duration was found in women and respondents less satisfied with their relationships with coworkers, and these are the groups to which special attention should be awarded when planning supervision, work procedures, and gender equality policy of the Armed Forces. A good way of increasing the quality of interpersonal relationships at work would be to teach such skills in teaching programs for commanding officers.

Ključne besede: travma, obvladovanje, psihosocialni status, vojaško osebje, spol Attachment avoidance and ambivalent attachment have been shown to be associated with a greater number of PTSD symptoms (14). Adult attachment style and PTSD symptomatology were investigated in 107 former prisoners of war (15). Those with secure attachment styles scored significantly lower on measures of PTSD than did those with insecure styles; attachment style was a stronger predictor of PTSD symptom intensity than was trauma severity. Hazen and Shaver (12) proposed a model of critical nature of primary attachment bonds. More recent theorists, however, have begun to argue that the individual's perception of their attachment relationships of early years is more critical than the occurrence of true childhood attachment-related events (13). It was found that pre-war risk factors differed between women and men (16). In women, instability within the primary family had the largest influence on PTSD; an early trauma history was also strongly associated with PTSD. In men, PTSD was predicted by family instability, childhood antisocial behaviour, and a younger age of entry into the war; an early trauma history was also directly associated with PTSD. An early trauma history also interacted with the war-zone level of stress to increase PTSD symptoms for male veterans exposed to intense combat. Social support, hardiness, and additional negative life events following Vietnam affected both men's and women's resilience and recovery (17). Schnurr et al. (18) examined risk factors for PTSD in veterans, and found that pre-military factors included

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