Identity adjustment among Afghanistan and Iraq war veterans with reintegration difficulty.

摘要: OBJECTIVE To examine perceptions of identity adjustment in a diverse, national sample U.S. veterans the wars Afghanistan and Iraq. METHOD The authors conducted planned thematic analysis text written by Iraq war when they were asked to describe their reintegration difficulties as part randomized controlled trial (RCT) online expressive writing (Sayer et al., 2015). Participants 100 randomly selected from larger study (42 women 58 men, 60 active duty 38 reserves or National Guard). RESULTS Nearly 2/3s participants wrote about adjustment. 5 interrelated areas difficulty (a) feeling like one does not belong civilian society, (b) missing military's culture structured lifestyle, (c) holding negative views (d) left behind compared counterparts due military service, (e) having finding meaning world. did observe differences gender. However, those deployed particularly likely feel if society that had acquired needed skills, whereas Guard experienced reestablishing former identities. CONCLUSIONS Identity is critical yet understudied aspect veteran into community life following combat deployment. (PsycINFO Database Record