Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior of Children With Enlisted Navy Mothers Experiencing Military-Induced Separation

Survey data were used to examine children's internalizing (i.e., fearful, sad, overcontrolled) and externalizing (i.e., aggression, noncompliant, undercontrolled) behaviors across three groups (i.e., Navy children with deployed mothers, Navy children with non-deployed mothers, children with civilian mothers). Differences between children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors of Navy non-deployed and deployed mothers and civilian mothers were found.