A prospective study of homesickness in soldiers during military deployment

Niziurski, Julie; Berntsen, Dorthe

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.08.028

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“…Additionally, the design of the experiment allowed participants to answer the AMQs without providing a written description of the thought they were prompted to think of (e.g., a positive memory related to the pandemic). As explained in the Method section, this was done for ethical reasons and has been done in other studies (e.g., Niziurski et al, 2018 ; Niziurski & Berntsen, 2018 ). We are unable to determine why people chose to provide descriptions for some prompts and not others.…”

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Psychological wellbeing, memories, and future thoughts during the Covid-19 pandemic

Niziurski

Schaper

2021

Curr Psychol

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The Covid-19 pandemic led countries to place restrictions on the general public in order to protect their safety. These restrictions, however, may have negative psychological consequences as people are restricted in their social and leisure activities and facing daily life stressors. Investigating the relationship between how people are remembering pandemic events and thinking about their futures is important in order to begin to examine the psychological consequences – cognitive and emotional – of the Covid-19 pandemic. The present study examined how characteristics of past and future thinking relate to psychological wellbeing during the Covid-19 pandemic. In an online questionnaire study, 904 participants in Germany and the USA recalled and predicted negative and positive events related to the pandemic. Participants completed a series of questionnaires measuring cognitions and psychological symptoms. Participants’ current psychological wellbeing related to how they remembered events and thought of their future. Participants reported a greater sense of reliving for past compared to future events. However, future events were more rehearsed than past events. Additionally, the emotional impact of positive and negative events differed for the past and the future. Participants seem to be strongly future oriented during the Covid-19 pandemic, but have a negative view of future events.

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Psychological wellbeing, memories, and future thoughts during the Covid-19 pandemic

Niziurski

Schaper

2021

Curr Psychol

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“…Scholars have analyzed work in many aspects, such as the psychological health and well-being associated to jobs characterized by high stress, like those of military personnel (e.g., [1][2][3]) and healthcare professionals (e.g., [4][5][6]). Moreover, many researchers have been interested in the effects of the ergonomic and structural aspects of the job (e.g., [7][8][9]) and the influence that physical and mental health problems may have on work (e.g., [10][11][12]).…”

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What type of worker are you? Work-related Inventory (WI-10): A comprehensive instrument for the measurement of workaholism

Loscalzo

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2019

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BACKGROUND: In literature, there are many instruments for evaluating workaholism; however, they do not have convergent validity, because of the lack of a shared definition of workaholism. OBJECTIVE: We propose a new instrument for evaluating workaholism and work engagement, namely the Work-related Inventory (WI-10), which is based on Loscalzo and Giannini's (2017) comprehensive definition of workaholism. METHODS:We developed a pool of 36 items, covering: 1) addiction symptoms; 2) obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and 3) work engagement. Then, we conducted Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor analyses on a sample of 503 Italian workers (165 males, 337 females, one missing; Mean age = 38.26 ± 10.84) aiming to reduce the number of items. RESULTS:The results showed a 10-items (2 filler) and 2-factor solution: 1) Workaholism and 2) Work Engagement; moreover, the WI-10 has good internal reliability, convergent and divergent validity. CONCLUSIONS: We found good psychometric properties for the WI-10. We also proposed the cut-off scores for the screening of the four kinds of workers proposed by Loscalzo and Giannini (2017): disengaged workaholics, engaged workaholics, engaged workers, and detached workers. The WI-10 will be useful for both research and preventive and clinical purposes.

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“…In reinforcing reading, and perhaps mandating some leisure reading, this could possibly significantly improve the homesickness and stress levels of the current active duty members much as it helped those who served in World War II. This can also help mitigate the development or worsening of other mental health disorders (Niziurski & Berntsen, 2018).…”

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“…Research on this topic could provide more insight on the effectiveness of reading to mitigate homesickness and stress among current active-duty members. Homesickness and stress is still prominent in the military and can even contribute to the development of mental illnesses such as anxiety and depression (Niziurski & Berntsen, 2018). Currently, 1 in every 4 active-duty members of the military is diagnosed with a mental illness even though resources for mental health have increased significantly since WWII (Veterans & Active Duty, n.d.).…”

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Effect of Council on Books in Wartime’s Program on Homesickness and Stress in WWII Servicemen

Mesa

Sierra

2021

J Stud Res

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Bibliotherapy, the therapeutic use of reading, was introduced to the U.S Military in World War II by the Council on Books in Wartime, a non-profit organization who sent millions of books to deployed servicemen. Since its effectiveness was never examined, the military’s use of bibliotherapy ended with the war. Therefore, this study focused on analyzing the effect of the Council on Books in Wartime's book contributions upon homesickness and stress in deployed servicemen in WWII. The findings would evaluate the effectiveness of reading as a tool to mitigate homesickness and stress, two factors which heavily impact the mental wellbeing of deployed servicemen and women. To conduct this study, a retrospective correlational case study was conducted on a sample of eight WWII veterans, two of which reported reading while six reported never reading during their service. Each veteran was interviewed with questions derived from the Utrecht Homesickness Scale and the Perceived Stress Scale to quantify the change between both variables after reading. The data was disaggregated for those who did read and those who did not and further disaggregated into early-deployment and late deployment (or pre-reading and post-reading). After conducting the interviews, it was found that the difference between the change in both groups (those who did read and those who did not) was statistically significant for both homesickness and stress. Although there are a number of limitations to the results of this study, the data does suggest that there is a negative correlation between reading and homesickness and stress.

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A prospective study of homesickness in soldiers during military deployment

Abstract: Notice: This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Personality and Individual Differences. A definitive version was subsequently published in Personality and Individual Differences.

Cited by 7 publications

References 42 publications

Psychological wellbeing, memories, and future thoughts during the Covid-19 pandemic

Psychological wellbeing, memories, and future thoughts during the Covid-19 pandemic

What type of worker are you? Work-related Inventory (WI-10): A comprehensive instrument for the measurement of workaholism

Effect of Council on Books in Wartime’s Program on Homesickness and Stress in WWII Servicemen

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