Adjustment Among Youth in Military Families: The Protective Roles of Effortful Control and Maternal Social Support

This study examined the relation between adolescents’ coping, ability to regulate emotions (called “effortful control” in this study), parental support, and adjustment as reflected in their conduct problems and emotional symptoms. The authors compared adolescents with parents who had returned from deployment in the past year to those who had not experienced a parental deployment in the past year.