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Summary
Military spouses are often concerned about how their communication will affect the Service member's work performance during deployment. The relationship between spousal communication and deployed Soldiers' negative spillover was examined in the study. Results showed that poor marital relationship was strongly related to spillover for deployed Soldiers.
Citation
Carter, S. P., Loew, B., Allen, E. S., Osborne, L., Stanley, S. M., Markman, H. J. (2015). Distraction During Deployment: Marital Relationship Associations With Spillover for Deployed Army Soldiers. Military Psychology, 27, 108-114. doi:10.1037/mil0000067