The UK Armed Forces and the Value of the University Armed Service Units

Woodward, Rachel; Williams, AJ

doi:10.1080/03071847.2016.1152119

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“…Part of the research was devoted to theoretical considerations about the role of values in soldiers' lives: Knorr (1970), Kilmer (1986), Baynes (1987), Siebold (1996), Shamir et al (2000), Murphy and Farley (2002), Goyne (2004), Britt et al (2006), Carlson and Kewley (2008), Spustek (2012), Baker (2012), Yi-Ming (2014, Dyrda (2014), Schmitz-Wortmeyer andBranco (2019). Empirical research focused mainly on experienced soldiers serving for many years but the youngest soldiers were also examined: Borman et al (1975), Ginexi et al (1995), Jarmoszko (1996), Han Chan (1999, Franke (2001), Bera (2003), Horyń (2004), Forgette-Malone and Paik (2007), Marcinkowski (2012), Yi-Ming (2015), Woodward et al (2016), Schmid Callina et al (2018. However, there is a significant gap in the research and studies carried out.…”

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Values and norms of behaviour in the life of cadets

Dziwanowski¹

2020

Security and Defence Quarterly

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The aim of this paper is to analyse the meaning, role and place of values in the life of a soldier. Furthermore, the article explores the issues of soldiers’ ethical standards and types of behaviour which can be found in the modern army. It outlines that they are strongly influenced by the local culture. As a result of everyday performance, every individual makes assessments, i.e. formulates different opinions according to a specific criterion and assigns them a significant place in the hierarchy of values. In the light of this theory, the article examines the hierarchy of values and the norms of behaviour that occur in the lives of cadets. The paper uses The Rokeach Value Survey as well as The Kruskal–Wallis test by ranks. Using these two methods, the author analyses his own questionnaires to compare the value system of Polish Air Force University students. The main findings state that cadets have a permanent system of values. Moreover, they share similar judgments concerning different behaviour. Regardless of the course year, goals and values related to their homeland and family seem to be of the greatest importance. The overall findings of the paper show a great number of similarities in the cadets’ value system. It is recommended that the future research should focus on examining students of other Polish military universities in order to check if they respond differently. The results obtained may be helpful in the process of young soldiers’ upbringings taking into consideration the moral figure among military school graduates.

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