Parenting Practices and Emotion Regulation in National Guard and Reserve Families: Early Findings From the After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tools/ADAPT Study

Exposure of one parent to combat, reintegration, and further deployment is hypothesized to impair parenting by influencing parents' emotion regulation capacities. Baseline data were collected from National Guard/Reserve and civilian parents and families participating in the After Deployment: Adaptive Parenting Tool (ADAPT) program. Results indicate that deployed parents reported more difficulty with emotional regulation and parenting than civilian parents, particularly deployed mothers.