Military Identity and the Transition into Civilian Life by Kevin M Wilson-Smith & Philip J Corr

Author:Kevin M Wilson-Smith & Philip J Corr
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030123383
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Psychological Perspectives

The experience of social identity for Reservists is of particular interest to Identity theorists when we consider the fact that Reservists engage in fast paced, intermittent service between military and civilian job roles (Griffith, 2010). With this in mind, research has explored how Reservists make sense of their identity and subsequent enactment of prototypical behaviours , which appear to rely on various psychosocial processes, such as the attitudes and beliefs that the individual has about the nature of military service (Griffith, 2011). Based on the existence in both uniformed and non-uniformed work roles , Reservists have been described as “ transmigrants ” because, according to Lomski-Feder, Gazit, and Ben-Ari (2008):like the transmigrant, reservists move between different cultural and social spaces and as a result create the potential for communities and social networks that cross political, social and organizational boundaries and form conduits for the flow of ideas, interests and identities. (p. 599)

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