Moderating Effects of Relationship Ability on the Relationship between Military Life Stress and Military Adjustment of Soldiers

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderating effect of interpersonal relationship skills in adapting military life and stress in the army. For this purpose, 453 soldiers in Chungnam and Daejeon were surveyed. First, the main result of this study is the difference in interpersonal skills and group life adjustment in accordance with the rank and class of the soldiers. Second, too much stress can cause difficulty to adapt military life and interpersonal skills. Also high interpersonal skills can help to adjust well to military life. Third, according to the survey, it was confirmed that the openness in the sub-factors of military life and military life stress was effective. This study suggests that it is important to help control the stress of military life to improve the ability of the openness of interpersonal skills in order to increase the adaptability military life.

Living up to Parental Expectations, Psychological Separation, and Life Satisfaction

“…This result accords with previous studies of Korean college students showing negative associations between general independence and college adjustment and positive associations between conflictual independence and college adjustment (Choi, 2002; Park & Jin, 2015). Because Korean culture places more emphasis on relatedness than individuality (Kim, 1999), having high general independence and perceiving oneself as independent is not necessarily a healthy adaptation. According to Choi (2002), college students who abide by their parents’ decisions are not failing to resist parental pressure but making active choices based on their relational selves.…”