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Abstract

This study explored the correlation of army soldiers’ verbal violence, aggression, and positive and negative automatic thoughts and examined mainly positive and negative automatic thoughts to confirm mediation model and path of verbal violence and aggression. To this end, data were collected from 292 survey results conducted by 300 soldiers in Hongcheon-gun, Gangwon-do. The research tools consisted of Language Violence Questionnaire (LVQ), Korean Version of Aggression Questionnaire (K-AQ), Automat Thought Questionnaire (ATQ -N, ATQ -P). The results were analyzed by SPSS 21.0 program. For the study results, descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, pathway modeling, and mediating effects were presented. Especially, verbal violence was bootstrapping for partial mediation, which leads to positive and negative automatic thoughts, the indirect effect through negative automatic thoughts path was significant (β =.069, p<.01). However, positive automatic thoughts was not (β =.003, n.s). This study contributed to verify a significant mediation effect of verbal violence and aggression and positive and negative automatic thoughts.