[The attitude of soldiers toward military service].
Due to the formation of the new state--SR Yugoslavia and transformation of armed forces as well as social-political changes which resulted in changes of fundamental social values, the aim of this study is to analyze the factors influencing the attitudes of the youths to the military service in Yugoslav army. The sample consisted of 200 adapted (group A) and 400 nonadapted (group NA) soldiers. The applied instrument was the Adjustment questionnaire. The attitude to the military service has two poles: negative included 72.5% soldiers of group NA and positive included 78% soldiers of group A. Between two poles there were 27.5% soldiers of NA and 22% soldiers of group A who were ambivalent to the military service. It is concluded that the attitude to the military service of the group A soldiers was influenced by their parents, but of the group NA was not.
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D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D015022:Yugoslavia