Potentially morally injurious experiences and associated factors among Dutch UN peacekeepers: a latent class analysis ...

Background: During peacekeeping missions, military personnel may be involved in or exposed to potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs), such as an inability to intervene due to a limited mandate. While exposure to such morally transgressive events has been shown to lead to moral injury in combat veterans, research on moral injury in peacekeepers is limited. Objective: We aimed to determine patterns of exposure to PMIEs and associated outcome- and exposure-related factors among Dutch peacekeepers stationed in the former Yugoslavia during the Srebrenica genocide. Method: Self-report dat... Mehr ...

Verfasser: de Goede, Mariëlle L.
van der Aa, Niels
Mooren, Trudy M.
Olff, Miranda
Heide, F. Jackie June ter
Dokumenttyp: Scholarlyarticle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Verlag/Hrsg.: Taylor & Francis
Schlagwörter: Medicine / Cell Biology / Biotechnology / Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified / Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified / Sociology / FOS: Sociology / Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified / Developmental Biology / Science Policy / Infectious Diseases / FOS: Health sciences
Sprache: unknown
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28982777
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.25551034.v1

Background: During peacekeeping missions, military personnel may be involved in or exposed to potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs), such as an inability to intervene due to a limited mandate. While exposure to such morally transgressive events has been shown to lead to moral injury in combat veterans, research on moral injury in peacekeepers is limited. Objective: We aimed to determine patterns of exposure to PMIEs and associated outcome- and exposure-related factors among Dutch peacekeepers stationed in the former Yugoslavia during the Srebrenica genocide. Method: Self-report data were collected among Dutchbat III veterans ( N = 431). We used Latent Class Analysis to identify subgroups of PMIE exposure as assessed by the Moral Injury Scale–Military version. We investigated whether deployment location, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), posttraumatic growth, resilience, and quality of life differentiated between latent classes. Results: The analysis identified a three-class solution: a high ...