The purposes of this study are : First, this study conducts researches about each level of soldiers' social support, self-esteem, empowerment, and adjustment in the military life. Second, this study examines how soldiers' social support and self-estee...
The purposes of this study are : First, this study conducts researches about each level of soldiers' social support, self-esteem, empowerment, and adjustment in the military life. Second, this study examines how soldiers' social support and self-esteem have an effect on their empowerment and adjustment in the military life. Third, this study examines how soldiers' social support and self-esteem have an effect on their adjustment to the military life through the empowerment.
The subjects of this study that is conducted through the questionnaire, are 345 soldiers who are serving in 3 battalion in an infantry brigade of the rear army division. The questionnaire materials is analyzed by the way of the frequency analysis, t-Test, oneway-ANOVA, multiple regression analysis and path analysis.
The main results of this study are : First, according to the result of the multiple regression analysis about the factor that has an effect on soldiers' empowerment, the higher the level of the social support is, and the higher the self-esteem is, the higher the level of the empowerment is. In addition, the longer soldiers' service period in the army, the higher the level of the empowerment is. And servicemen on active duty have higher level of the empowerment than the first full-time reserves.
Second, the higher the level of soldiers' social support and self-esteem, which affect their adjustment to the military life, the higher the level of their adjustment to the military life. And soldiers who graduated only high school have a higher level of an adjustment to their military life than ones who are in temporary absence from university due to army service, and who graduated university.
Third, this study analyzed how soldiers' social support and self-esteem affect their adjustment to the military life through the parameter, the empowerment. If the level of soldiers' social support and self-esteem becomes higher, their empowerment is also advanced, and then it is proved that this influence results in the level-up of soldiers' adjustment to their military life.
This study expands the sphere of the research from the previous studies about the social support, the self-esteem, the empowerment, and the adjustment of the only children, youths, and the challenged to the study about soldiers' adjustment to the military life. That is the profound significance of this study.
The proposal for next studies and the development of soldiers' welfare in the military service are : First of all, it is needed the implementation of effective communication programs and professional counseling skills for officer groups, and the group-counseling program between soldiers to improve the level of the social support. And to advance soldiers' self-esteem, it is needed the intervention of the program for the beforehand prevention rather than the problem-centered approaching way about maladjusted soldiers. And it is also needed to carry out the training and programs about efficient communication for corporal who usually have the high level of the social support, self-esteem, and the empowerment to help other soldiers' adjustment to the military life.
Besides, it is needed that the number of professional counselors who are relatively free from a chain of command must be multiplied and military social workers who control the first full-time reserves as well as servicemen on active duty should be revitalized. To meet this need, not only internal efforts in army service organization which soldiers are belonged to, but also the way of the contact and the cooperation with the external systems, like community welfare organization have to be made. Thus, The soldiers will be more easily adjusted to the military life.