What is it about?
This research article reflects upon conflicting voices in a service member's self during transition from military to civilian life. The study included annual interviews spanning from 2014 to 2016. This service member struggled with a hard time to find meaning and purpose in his civilian life while he simultaneously struggled with a sense of meaninglessness and indifference in regards to his deployments in Afghanistan.
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Why is it important?
This article highlights the difficulty of finding (new) meaning and purpose in a new civilian life amid transition from a military one. But it also pinpoint the challenge which a service member has to face of finding meaning in deployments in war zone(s) which does not seem to make any difference or contribute to something valuable over time.
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I think that it is important to widen the knowledge by highlighting the struggles and challenges that our service members across the world has to face during deployment and in the aftermath of military service amid the return to civilian life and civilian society.
Dr. Jan Grimell
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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This page is a summary of: Making dialogue with an existential voice in transition from military to civilian life, Theory & Psychology, November 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0959354317739164.
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