Soldiers deployed to combat zones are likely to experience some stressful situations that can result in individual strains or ill health. In addition to the stressors originating in situ, problems at home can also affect soldiers' strains and attitudes about deployment. However, they may also possess resources in the form of social support from both their comrades and family that, based on resources theories of occupational stress, can lessen strains or enhance attitudes. A serious problem in examining this issue is the difficulty of studying their occupational stress, because collecting data in their work situation-a combat zone-is inherently complicated. Most studies rely on past recollection of the deployment situation in post-deployment data collections, with some studies including a pre-deployment measure or one data collection during deployment. The present study was the first to collect data from soldiers periodically (monthly) over the course of their entire deployment to a combat zone, which has the advantage of providing more accurate tracking of stressor and resource effects on both their strains and positive deployment attitudes closer to real time. This monthly diary study found that, consistent with resource theories of occupational stress, the previous month's combat stressors had a detrimental effect on many outcomes, and the resource of social support from work and home during the previous month improved physical health and depression, respectively. Future research should not only replicate this approach to data collection but also extend the measurement periods to examine soldiers' readjustment process after returning home. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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来自前线的新闻：关于军事部署到战区期间的压力和社会支持的月度研究。

部署到战区的士兵可能会遇到一些压力情况，这可能导致个人压力或健康状况不佳。除了来自原地的压力源之外，国内的问题也会影响士兵的压力和对部署的态度。然而，他们也可能拥有来自同志和家人的社会支持形式的资源，这些资源基于职业压力的资源理论，可以减轻压力或提高态度。研究这个问题的一个严重问题是研究他们的职业压力的难度，因为在他们的工作环境（战区）中收集数据本身就很复杂。大多数研究依赖于过去在部署后数据收集中对部署情况的回忆，一些研究包括部署前措施或部署期间的一次数据收集。本研究首次在士兵部署到战区的整个过程中定期（每月）收集他们的数据，其优点是可以更准确地跟踪压力源和资源对他们的压力和积极部署态度的影响。到实时。这项月度日记研究发现，与职业压力的资源理论一致，前一个月的战斗压力源对许多结果产生不利影响，而前一个月来自工作和家庭的社会支持资源分别改善了身体健康和抑郁症。未来的研究不仅应将这种方法复制到数据收集中，还应延长测量周期，以检查士兵回国后的重新调整过程。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。