In the Iraq and Afghanistan war context, studies have found that military-connected youth— youth with parents and/or siblings serving in the military—have higher rates of school victimization than their nonmilitary-connected peers.
Military-connected youth (i.e., having a parent or sibling in the military) may be more likely to experience peer victimization than their nonmilitary-connected counterparts.
Organized youth programs can serve as a context in which youth are connected to resource-bearing adults in the community who promote the development of social capital. This article explores the process of how this happens and what types of resources are gained by youth.
An exploration of how youth may become connected to adult leaders in their community through a social capital lens was conducted. Furthermore the study examined the process that youth engaged in when forming relationships with adult leaders.
Formal systems and informal networks are presumed to be significant contexts that affect military families. Their effects on both parents and adolescents in active duty military families are examined (N = 236 families).
The impact of family military involvement on adolescent mental health and substance abuse is well established, but little is known about other behavioral health outcomes such as physical fighting.
The relationship between family military involvement and physical fighting in a representative sample of 3,928 high school students was conducted.
Transactional cascades among child internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and fathers’ and mothers’ posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms were examined in a sample of families with a male parent who had been deployed to recent military conflicts in the Middle East.
The effects of parent combat exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms can impact families long after deployment.