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      Meaning in military service among reservists: Measuring the effect of prosocial motivation in a moderated-mediation model

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          Introduction

          The meaningful commitment to serve one’s country and the desire to defend others make military service unique compared to other human activities. This is especially true for the army reservists who are typically working in the civilian labor market and serving military for the short-term military training or military missions only. As scholars provide limited insights into the effects and influences of prosocial motivation on meaning in military service, this study contributes to the understanding of direct, mediated, and moderated processes which link prosocial motivation to meaning in military service among reservists. Specifically, the objective of this study was to examine both direct and indirect pathways interconnecting prosocial motivation and meaning in military service. The former is analyzed as a direct effect, while the latter includes the effects of role fit within the military environment, the soldiers’ self-efficacy, as well as the socio-moral climate of military organization—that is, a variable making military service an exceptional activity.

          Methods

          This study followed a quantitative method analysis by utilizing a hierarchical regression analysis which revealed direct, moderating, and mediating links between the variables. The analysis was based on a sample of 375 soldiers from the Active Reserve of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, and the data were collected before and after training exercises in one military unit (repeated measures). The effects on providing meaning to military service were evaluated using the following: Occupational Self-Efficacy Scale, Prosocial Motivation Scale, Motivation at Work Scale, and Socio-Moral Climate Scale. Prosocial motivation assumes meaning in military service among reservists through different, yet related, pathways.

          Results and discussion

          The direct pathway confirmed that reserve soldiers with higher levels of prosocial motivation experience a higher level of meaning in service. The indirect pathway indicated that role fit mediated this relationship. Following the latter, we found that prosocial motivation was a significant predictor of both role fit and meaning in military service. Finally, we confirmed the moderated-mediation effects of self-efficacy and socio-moral climate in our suggested models. The results can be used to improve training programs for reservists.

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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Psychol
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Front Psychol
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Psychol.
                Title: Frontiers in Psychology
                Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
                ISSN (Electronic): 1664-1078
                Publication date (Electronic): 09 February 2023
                Publication date Collection: 2023
                Volume: 14
                Electronic Location Identifier: 1082685
                Affiliations
                General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania , Vilnius, Lithuania
                Author notes

                Edited by: Michela Floris, University of Cagliari, Italy

                Reviewed by: James Stefurak, University of South Alabama, United States; Dominic Willmott, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

                *Correspondence: Svajone Bekesiene, ✉ svajone.bekesiene@ 123456lka.lt

                This article was submitted to Organizational Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1082685
                PMC ID: 9947855
                PubMed ID: 36844339
                SO-VID: 8f381088-df73-4b6b-a38b-2aa0b685c20a
                Copyright © Copyright © 2023 Smaliukienė, Bekesiene, Kanapeckaitė, Navickienė, Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė and Vaičaitienė.
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                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                Date received : 28 October 2022
                Date accepted : 13 January 2023
                Page count
                Figures: 7, Tables: 7, Equations: 0, References: 79, Pages: 14, Words: 11420
                Funding
                Funded by: Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT), doi 10.13039/501100004504;
                Award ID: S-LU-22-9
                Categories
                Subject: Psychology
                Subject: Original Research

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: prosocial motivation,meaning in work,meaning in military service,reserve soldiers,role fit,mediation,moderation
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: prosocial motivation, meaning in work, meaning in military service, reserve soldiers, role fit, mediation, moderation

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