The purpose of this study was to investigate if there are differences in army soldiers'
Nun-chi, emotional regulation pattern and interpersonal harmony depending on their
ranks and to verify if emotional regulation pattern moderates the relationship between
soldiers' Nun-chi and interpersonal harmony. For this purpose, Nun-chi index, emotional
regulation patter index and interpersonal index were used on 537 army soldiers. In order
to investigate if soldiers' Nun-chi, emotional regulation pattern and interpersonal
harmony have statistically significant differences depending on their ranks, one-way
ANOVA was conducted and to examine if emotional regulation pattern has a moderating
effect in soldiers' Nun-chi and interpersonal harmony, hierarchical regression analysis
was performed. The results of these analyses are as follows. First, there were differences
in soldiers' Nun-chi, emotional regulation pattern and interpersonal harmony depending
on their ranks. When the ranks of the soldiers were classified into the group of privates
and private first classes and the group of corporals and sergeants based on their degree
of socialization in the army, the group of privates and private first classes was lower than
the group of corporals and sergeants in understanding of Nun-chi, behavioral factor,
active regulation pattern among emotional regulation pattern and harmony emotion,
harmony behavior, harmony perception and harmony practice in interpersonal harmony.
Second, in order to verify if emotional regulation pattern moderates the relationship
between Nun-chi and interpersonal harmony, hierarchical regression analysis was
conducted with each sub-factor of interpersonal harmony set as criterion variable and
with each sub-factor of Nun-chi and emotional regulation pattern and interaction term of each sub-factor of Nun-chi and emotional regulation pattern set as predictors. As the
result of analysis, avoidant/distractive emotional regulation pattern negatively moderated
the relationship that the higher the Nun-chi, the higher the harmony emotion among
interpersonal harmony. On the other hand, interaction terms of Nun-chi and emotional
regulation pattern were not significant in harmony behavior, harmony perception and
harmony practice of interpersonal harmony, and emotional regulation pattern did not
moderate Nun-chi and harmony behavior, harmony perception and harmony practice of
interpersonal harmony. The meanings and implications of these results were presented
and suggestions for the follow-up studies were also discussed.