In order to achieve its purpose as a combat group to win ground battles, the army will present difficult tasks to soldiers who have just left their youth. The various adversities and risk factors experienced by soldiers lead to "duty maladjustment", a...
In order to achieve its purpose as a combat group to win ground battles, the army will present difficult tasks to soldiers who have just left their youth. The various adversities and risk factors experienced by soldiers lead to "duty maladjustment", and the pain and maladjustment of soldiers often manifest in the form of crime, depending on the individual's character and circumstances. Agnew's General Strain Theory(1992) argues that tensions lead to delinquency and crime. In addition, the self-control of the general theory was suggested as a conditional variable for tension to occur in delinquency. Since military violence not only lowers the fighting power and morale of the army, but also causes distrust among the people, it confirms the influential factors of soldiers' violent attitudes based on general strain theory and suggests countermeasures against military violence.
To achieve the research study goals, the two hypotheses were tested. The first hypothesis is the strain that occurs in the military will affect the soldier's violent attitude. The second hypothesis is self-control will moderate the relationship between strain and violent attitude. The theme of this study was based on the assumption that military life had a negative stimulus and that such tension affected the violence of soldiers. To verify two hypotheses, the researcher collected the data from 500 soldiers who are serving on duty in 2020, and a total of 477 samples were used for analysis, except for those with incomplete answers. The dependent variables were soldiers' violent attitudes, and the independent variables were measured by three variables: tension of comrades, tension of troops and social atrophy. Self-control was included as moderator variables, and other factors (class, age, academic background) were included as control variables. As a result of hierarchical regression analysis, the comrade tension and troops tension affect the soldiers' violent attitudes. However, the comrade tension had a negative effect on the attitude of violence. In addition to that self-control moderates comrade tension and violent attitude. The tension arising from relations with comrades reduced the permissible attitude of violence by the self-control formed at an early age.
The focus of this study was to verify the relationship between tension and the soldier's violent attitudes. Measures to prevent violent crimes were proposed by identifying the factors that affect violent attitude. Based on the results of this study, the following policy suggestions are made to reduce violent acts of military soldiers. First, an approach is needed to reduce the troop tension of soldiers. It is necessary to reduce unfamiliar feelings and maladjustment toward the troops through active mentoring activities of senior officers and senior soldiers. Second, we should actively promote the companion enlistment system, a system in which a friend enlists and trains and is assigned to the same unit to serve. Third, the characteristics of Generation Z should be utilized so that they can be interested in the military life and adapt well. Fourth, the self-control of military soldiers passing through early adulthood cannot be newly formed, but must be developed through training.