This study was carried out to find out the psychological effects of the military service in Korean university students. The subjects consisted of 309 university students who fulfilled one's military service and 379 who have not yet completed their mil...
This study was carried out to find out the psychological effects of the military service in Korean university students. The subjects consisted of 309 university students who fulfilled one's military service and 379 who have not yet completed their military duty, and they completed questionnaire composed by Psychosocial Matiurity Inventory
(PMI).
As a result, there were significant difference in the subscales of the PMI between fulfilled group and unfulfilled group. However, it was not because the effect of military service, but age difference. To put it concretely, there were not significant difference in SCC, EM between fulfilled group and unfulfilled group, & EI than unfulfilled group. On the contrast, unfulfilled group reported higher PT(positive thought) than fulfilled group. The results and suggertions for further research were discussed.