Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective

The article presents the problems that military families face nowadays, since the Slovak Armed Forces became fully professional. I provide a brief definition of the professional soldier’s family (military family) and its structure, and then introduce the problems that the Slovak Armed Forces have to...

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Main Author: Josef Matis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Termedia Publishing House 2016-05-01
Series:Current Issues in Personality Psychology
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Online Access:http://www.termedia.pl/Soldiers-and-their-families-in-the-Slovak-Republic-a-report-on-quality-of-functioning-from-the-empirical-perspective,75,27640,1,1.html
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spelling doaj-a67175aab5f64308a33e0343bf0cd84e2020-11-24T20:59:34ZengTermedia Publishing HouseCurrent Issues in Personality Psychology2353-41922353-561X2016-05-014211812410.5114/cipp.2016.6009927640Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspectiveJosef MatisThe article presents the problems that military families face nowadays, since the Slovak Armed Forces became fully professional. I provide a brief definition of the professional soldier’s family (military family) and its structure, and then introduce the problems that the Slovak Armed Forces have to solve in order to eliminate two sources of stress. The first source is the impact of the professional soldiers’ job on their families and on the fulfilment of basic family roles. The second source of stress is the impact of the families on the fulfilment of soldiers’ duties at work. These two phenomena present in the Slovak Armed Forces were measured with a questionnaire distributed among 416 respondents. Its results confirmed that the impact of the soldiers’ profession on fulfilment of their basic family roles and the impact of the military family on soldiers’ performance at work (especially their mobility and career) raise serious problems that military families need to face. I conclude by emphasizing that these problems can be eliminated with the help of a high-quality and complex system of social security for professional soldiers and their families, which could be implemented through social work in the armed forces and built alongside the development of the professional armed forces.http://www.termedia.pl/Soldiers-and-their-families-in-the-Slovak-Republic-a-report-on-quality-of-functioning-from-the-empirical-perspective,75,27640,1,1.htmlsoldiers military family quality of life
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Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective
Current Issues in Personality Psychology
soldiers
military family
quality of life
author_facet Josef Matis
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title Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective
title_short Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective
title_full Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective
title_fullStr Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective
title_full_unstemmed Soldiers and their families in the Slovak Republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective
title_sort soldiers and their families in the slovak republic: a report on quality of functioning from the empirical perspective
publisher Termedia Publishing House
series Current Issues in Personality Psychology
issn 2353-4192
2353-561X
publishDate 2016-05-01
description The article presents the problems that military families face nowadays, since the Slovak Armed Forces became fully professional. I provide a brief definition of the professional soldier’s family (military family) and its structure, and then introduce the problems that the Slovak Armed Forces have to solve in order to eliminate two sources of stress. The first source is the impact of the professional soldiers’ job on their families and on the fulfilment of basic family roles. The second source of stress is the impact of the families on the fulfilment of soldiers’ duties at work. These two phenomena present in the Slovak Armed Forces were measured with a questionnaire distributed among 416 respondents. Its results confirmed that the impact of the soldiers’ profession on fulfilment of their basic family roles and the impact of the military family on soldiers’ performance at work (especially their mobility and career) raise serious problems that military families need to face. I conclude by emphasizing that these problems can be eliminated with the help of a high-quality and complex system of social security for professional soldiers and their families, which could be implemented through social work in the armed forces and built alongside the development of the professional armed forces.
topic soldiers
military family
quality of life
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