The associations between parenting practices and child outcomes are well documented, however, the generalizability of the association across different race/ethnicity, family structure, education, gender, and family income is still unknown.
Service members who live far away from their aging parents may have high levels of worry about their parents health and well-being, especially if military duties make in-person contact rare.
This article analyzed data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88) to test the effect of participation in extracurricular activities on high school achievement. It also explored potential connections that linked such participation to academic success.
An assessment of ways in which school, neighborhood, nuclear family, and friendship group contexts jointly contribute to positive change during early adolescence was conducted. Middle school students, parents, teachers, and staff from one county bordering with Washington D.C.
When a parent has a mental health disorder, it may affect the environment in which children live, which may have certain effects on the children.
Adolescents were assessed to determine the associations between anxiety sensitivity and anxiety symptoms, anxiety disorders, and anxiety comorbidity.
Deployment can be a difficult time for families in many ways. This study focused on the experience of Sailors who were also mothers. Researchers compared the experience of deployed Navy mothers to those who were not deployed and examined predictors of mental health outcomes for deployed mothers.
The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) is a program that offers resources to military families who have a child with special needs.
Parent training programs can be beneficial to improving family functioning. Two groups of parents whose children were receiving mental health treatment participated in the study. The experimental group completed the eight-week parent training program, whereas the control group did not.
Male and female Service members may be impacted by stressors differently, particularly given the predominately male composition of the military.
An exploration on what influenced women in the military to reenlist was conducted. More specifically, the focus of this study was on better understanding factors such as deployment, psychological adjustment, and a woman’s commitment to family and motherhood.
After-school programs are often promoted as providing youth with opportunities and resources for development; however, the merit of these programs is not always assessed. This study compared school-based and community-based after-school programs and school opportunities.
Belonging to a community is often an important part of an individual or family’s well-being and a key source of social support. Relationships between Active Duty Air Force members’ perceptions of community variables (e.g., participation, connection) were examined.
How a child adjusts to kindergarten can impact their long-term school trajectory. Associations between child behavior, teacher relationship quality, academic skills, and achievement were examined among a cohort of 179 children who were followed from kindergarten through eighth grade.
Survey, assessment, and interview data were used to examine Active Duty, Reserve, and civilian children’s perceptions of war, levels of anxiety, coping strategies, and emotional problems.
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
Elementary through high school students participated in 12 waves of data collection over six years to assess the development of self-concept in social, developmental, and educational transitions.
50 male, Australian Vietnam veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), 33 age-matched civilian males, and each adult’s oldest willing child (age range 16-30) completed surveys assessing family functioning, self-esteem, and symptoms of PTSD to examine the transgenerational tra
The purpose of this study was to estimate the effect of work-related separations on military families. Specifically, the authors estimate the effect of Gulf War deployment on divorce rates, spousal employment, and children’s disability rates (physical, emotional, or intellectual handicap).
2,731 young men and one of their parents participated in a telephone survey to understand factors associated with military enlistment.
It is important to understand what factors contribute to recurrent spouse abuse. By analyzing data from the U.S. Army Central Registry, the study examined elements that were associated with spouse abuse recidivism in military families.
354 Swedish eighth graders and their parents participated in a study investigating the extent to which adolescents’ achievement strategies are associated with the parenting styles of their families.
Seventy-two male Reservist Marines were surveyed to examine Marine attitudes toward lesbians and gay men. The role of various demographic variables in predicting attitudes toward homosexual was examined.
Military personnel deployed to the Middle East included an unprecedented number of women, many of whom were mothers.
Drawing data from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment Survey, this study focused on the relationship between fathers’ participation in abusive violence in Vietnam (e.g., terrorizing, wounding or killing civilians, mutilating bodies) and behavioral disturbances among their children (aged 6-
Fourteen civilian spouses of National Guard and Reserve Service members participated in an unstructured interview to explore the experience of wartime military separation from their partners.