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.
The potential for war is a pervasive threat to the security and family structure of children in military families.
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
Objectives: To examine whether children with Navy mothers exhibit higher levels of internalizing and externalizing behavior than children in civilian families and whether deployment affects children's internalizing and externalizing behavior.
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.
The development of child and adolescent self-concept was examined as a function of the self-concept domain, social/developmental/educational transitions, and gender.
Military families have experienced the emotional trauma of deployment on an unprecedented scale since the end of the Gulf War.
The objectives of this study were to: (a) Determine the potential for child abuse among the Joint New Parent Support Program Hawaii (Joint NPSP) client population, (b) Determine whether client participation
This study examined the effects of parent–adolescent relationships on school performance to provide a clearer understanding of why authoritative parenting does not have as beneficial effects for Asian Americ
Most policy makers, corporate executives, practitioners, and parents assume that wiring schools, buying hardware and software, and distributing the equipment throughout will lead to abundant classroom use by
OBJECTIVE: This was a pilot study aimed at gathering preliminary data on the relationship between occupational stress and mental illness among military personnel.
The authors present findings from the preliminary stage of a research program intended to improve the selection and retention of U.S. Air Force military training instructors (MTIs).
The primary purposes of this article are to (1) highlight current challenges facing health promotion advocates within the military and civilian culture; (2) present the strengths and weaknesses of the curren
Studied the strategic implications of mentoring relationships perceived by company-grade US Army Reserve nurses. The effects of mentorship on job satisfaction and intent to stay were examined.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this investigation is to describe the health-related quality of life of Persian Gulf War (GW) veterans and to examine the effects of current chronic medical conditions and psychiatric status on physical functioning.
Does military service, in particular operational deployment, result in a higher risk of chronic illness among military personnel and veterans?
In 1987, data were collected on 2,731 young men and their parents as part of the Army Communications Objectives Measurement System (ACOMS) survey to understand factors associated with mili
2,731 young men and one of their parents participated in a telephone survey to understand factors associated with military enlistment.
The aim of the study was to investigate the extent to which adolescents' achievement strategies are associated with the parenting styles they experience in their 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.
Because most military children will be enrolled in public schools at some point, an understanding of military children can assist educators in working with such children and, more broadly, with mobile childr
This study sought to determine if the self-assessed mental health of older, community-dwelling veterans differs from that of older nonveterans controlling for known demographic, socioeconomic, and clinical c
Background: Musculoskeletal physical training-related injuries are a major problem in military populations.
Background: In November 1996, the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board (AFEB) Injury Prevention and Control Work Group issued a report that cited injuries as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among