전·평시 장병들의 정신건강을 위한 정신전력교육 콘텐츠 제안

Abstract

‘Transformation of manpower structure’ appears as a keyword in materials providing future direction of the army according to concern about military force reduction. The magazine, Army Vision 2050, aggressively demands turning into ‘Professional Manpower Centered Slim Type Structure’ based on the automated and unmanned systems according to technical development. This structure is based on the premise that as the population decreases, each soldier must do their best to complete missions and minimize the loss of military forces. There are still casualties for physical reasons during wartime and peacetime, but types of research revealed that the largest portion of reasons mental causes. Therefore, psychological stabilization is important both wartime and peacetime, but the approaches must be different. Because there are different types and different causes of mental illness that occurs. For example, PTSD, sensory distortion, and amnesia occur mainly in wartime. While in peacetime, adaptation disorders and depression occur most frequently. To prevent this phenomenon, it is necessary to understand the object and provide content tailored to the objects. The target is the current service joining soldiers, they are the MZ generation, which has different characteristics from previous serving generations. Newly joining ones, as digital natives, have distinct personal values and are active in putting them into practice. Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the digital that they are familiar with and induce them to understand and act on the values of the military beyond simple infusion education. Finally, to effectively transform military values into beliefs and actions, we propose ‘mental strength education applying gamification’. The mental strength education goal is to transform military values into beliefs and actions, and gamification stimulates motivational factors to induce voluntary participation and immersion. As a result, this can help stabilize the psychology during wartime and peacetime. On the other hand, the Army is currently conducting mental strength education with the 4th industrial revolution technology, so it will be no difficulty in applying this proposal to practice. Furthermore, insufficient content of mental power education can be supplemented with educational content applied with gamification proposed in this paper.