Potentially morally injurious experiences and associated factors among Dutch UN peacekeepers: a latent class analysis.

ABSTRACT: Background: During peacekeeping missions, military personnel may be involved in or exposed to potentially morally injurious experiences (PMIEs), such as an inability to intervene due to a limited mandate. While exposure to such morally transgressive events has been shown to lead to moral injury in combat veterans, research on moral injury in peacekeepers is limited.Objective: We aimed to determine patterns of exposure to PMIEs and associated outcome- and exposure-related factors among Dutch peacekeepers stationed in the former Yugoslavia during the Srebrenica genocide.Method: Self-report data were collected among Dutchbat III veterans (N = 431). We used Latent Class Analysis to identify subgroups of PMIE exposure as assessed by the Moral Injury Scale-Military ve

SUBMITTER: de Goede ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11000606 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature