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Warrior and peacekeeper role identities: associations with self-esteem, organizational commitment and organizational citizenship behavior

Journal of Military Studies

Volume 8 (2019): Issue 2019 (December 2019)

By: Tessa op den Buijs, Wendy Broesder, Irina Goldenberg, Delphine Resteigne and Juhan Kivirähk

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|Dec 2019

Figures & Tables

Demographic variables

Variables		%	n
Gender	Male	95.8	829
	Female	4.2

Rank	Private	41.4	829
	Non-commissioned officers	44.8
	Officer	13.8

Service	Army	98.6	830
	Navy	0.2
	Air Force	0.7
	Military Police	0.5
	Other	0.1

Marital status	Married	34.6	829
	With partner	31.8
	Alone	21.8
	With parents	9.9
	Other	1.8

Number of deployments	1 time	38.1	831
	2 times	23.2
	3 times	15.9
	4 times or more	22.6

Country last deployment	Afghanistan	87.1	827
	Lebanon	1.9
	Kosovo	3.3
	Other^a	7.6

Unit	Combat unit	60.6	822
	Combat-support	27.7
	Other^b	11.7

Function	Unit leader	19.9	825
	Unit member	73.8
	Individual mission	6.3

Correlations

Variables	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1. Age	1
2. Gender (male)	−0.01	1
3. Marital (married)	0.38**	0.06	1
4. Unit (combat)	−0.26**	0.13**	0.09**	1
5. Warrior	−0.18**	0.05	−0.09*	0.26**	1
6. Peacekeeper	0.10**	−0.11**	−0.01	−0.02	−0.07°
7. Self-esteem	0.26**	−0.09*	0.16**	−0.09*	−0.01	0.19**	1
8. Organ. comm.	0.23**	−0.09**	0.06	0.01	0.14**	0.27**	0.41**	1
9. OCB	0.18**	−0.10**	0.11**	−0.08*	0.09*	0.30**	0.41**	0.47**

Combined and unique prediction of OCB based on military role identity

Model summary	OCB

	R^{2 adjusted}	ΔR²	F(ΔR²)	p
Step 1	0.04	0.05	9.48	0.00
Step 2	0.14	0.10	46.45	0.00
Step 1	Β	β	t	p
Constant	3.95	–	31.904	0.00
Age	0.01	0.15	4.11	0.00
Gender	−0.28	−0.10	−2.93	0.00
Marital	0.08	0.06	1.78	0.08
Unit	−0.02	−0.02	−0.46	0.65
Step 2	Β	β	t	p
Constant	2.48	–	12.55	0.00
Age	0.01	0.14	3.91	0.00
Marital	0.09	0.08	2.29	0.02
Gender	−0.20	−0.07	−2.20	0.03
Unit	−0.06	−0.06	−1.60	0.11
Peacekeeper	0.28	0.29	8.66	0.00
Warrior	0.14	0.16	4.62	0.00

Means, standard deviations and internal consistencies of the scales (Cronbach’s alpha; n = 831)

Scales
	M	SD	Alpha	Likert scale
Warrior	3.35	0.64	0.72	1–5
Peacekeeper	3.59	0.58	0.77	1–5
Self-esteem	2.23	0.43	0.78	0–3
Organizational	4.03	0.59	0.79	1–5
commitment OCB	4.05	0.55	0.70	1–5

Combined and unique prediction of self-esteem based on military role identity

Model summary	Self-esteem

	R^{2 adjusted}	ΔR²	F(ΔR²)	p
Step 1	0.08	0.08	18.22	0.00
Step 2	0.10	0.03	12.58	0.00
Step 1	Β	β	t	p
Constant	1.89	–	20.78	0.00
Age	0.01	0.22	6.13	0.00
Marital	0.10	0.11	2.96	0.00
Unit	−0.01	−0.01	−0.18	0.86
Gender	−0.19	−0.09	−2.53	0.01
Step 2	Β	β	t	p
Constant	1.40	–	8.94	0.00
Age	0.01	0.21	5.83	0.00
Marital	0.10	0.11	3.20	0.00
Unit	−0.02	−0.02	−0.60	0.55
Gender	−0.15	−0.07	−2.05	0.04
Peacekeeper	0.12	0.16	4.83	0.00
Warrior	0.04	0.06	1.60	0.11

Combined and unique prediction of organizational commitment based on military role identity

Model summary	Organizational commitment

	R^{2 adjusted}	ΔR²	F(ΔR²)	p
Step 1	0.06	0.07	14.03	0.00
Step 2	0.15	0.09	43.85	0.00
Step 1	Β	β	t	p
Constant	3.67	–	27.98	0.00
Age	0.02	0.25	6.84	0.00
Marital	−0.01	−0.01	−0.15	0.88
Unit	0.11	0.09	2.48	0.01
Gender	−0.29	−0.10	−2.78	0.00
Step 2	Β	β	t	p
Constant	2.10	–	10.01	0.00
Age	0.02	0.25	7.00	0.00
Marital	0.01	0.01	0.27	0.79
Unit	0.05	0.04	1.15	0.25
Gender	−0.22	−0.08	−2.30	0.02
Peacekeeper	0.26	0.25	7.58	0.00
Warrior	0.19	0.20	5.93	0.00

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jms-2019-0002 | Journal eISSN: 1799-3350 | Journal ISSN: 2242-3524

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Language: English

Page range: 3 - 15

Submitted on: Oct 8, 2018

Accepted on: Apr 17, 2019

Published on: Dec 31, 2019

Published by: National Defense University

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

Keywords:

military role identity,

organizational commitment,

organizational citizenship

Related subjects:

Topics in history,

Military history,

Social sciences,

Political science,

Military policy

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