Resilient Family Processes, Personal Reintegration, and Subjective Well-Being Outcomes for Military Personnel and Their Family Members

Little is known about how family processes during a deployment (i.e. household routines and rituals, communication) affect the Service member and each family member during reintegration. This study examined how communication and household management during a deployment impacted post-deployment well-being as well as positive and negative reintegration experiences for each military family member. Results indicated that different factors impacted the reintegration experience for each family member, and that some reintegration experiences were related among family members.