Abstract
In this study, we investigated how effectively a Draw-a-Story drawing test can predict the perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience of soldiers. A total of 276 conscripted male soldiers participated in the study. The research tools included the Perceived Stress Scale, the Military Life Adjustment Scale, the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (Korean version), and the Draw-a-Story drawing test. The results of the correlation and regression analyses were as follows. First, perceived stress, military life adjustment, resilience, and DAS emotional content were all mutually correlated. The DAS self-image was positively correlated only with resilience. Second, emotional content predicted soldiers’ perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience at significant levels. Meanwhile, our regression analysis showed that self-image did not have significant predictive power. In this paper, we discuss the implications for predictive power of our findings regarding the two measures of DAS; we also propose that DAS could serve as a tool to predict the mental states of soldiers.
Highlights
Graduate School of Counseling Psychology, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; Abstract: In this study, we investigated how effectively a Draw-a-Story drawing test can predict the perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience of soldiers
We discuss the implications for predictive power of our findings regarding the two measures of DAS; we propose that DAS could serve as a tool to predict the mental states of soldiers
We found that the emotional content scale of the DAS test significantly predicted the perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience of the soldiers who participated in the study
Summary
Graduate School of Counseling Psychology, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea; Abstract: In this study, we investigated how effectively a Draw-a-Story drawing test can predict the perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience of soldiers. The research tools included the Perceived Stress Scale, the Military Life Adjustment Scale, the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (Korean version), and the. Perceived stress, military life adjustment, resilience, and DAS emotional content were all mutually correlated. Emotional content predicted soldiers’ perceived stress, military life adjustment, and resilience at significant levels. Feelings, intentions, and experiences of the people who draw them [1] This projective function makes drawing assessments valuable as auxiliary tools for evaluating individuals’ minds. Seeking to examine the effectiveness of a drawing test with a population whose mental states need to be assessed with various methods, we chose conscripted soldiers as subjects. Conscripted soldiers in the Korean army are generally between 19 and 25 years old; they live in barracks while enlisted and serve 18-month terms
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