A secondary analyses of the 2010 wave of the Military Family Life Project regarding structural differences in male and female Service members' families and the experiences of their military spouses was investigated.
Recent international studies have confirmed that peacekeeping deployment of a parent exacts a toll on partner and family, but little is known about how deployment-related stress impacts on Italian military families.
Stress related to military deployment among Italian peacekeepers and their families is reportedly often denied or minimized by Italian military officials.
Research has traditionally focused on the development of symptoms in those who experienced trauma directly but has overlooked the impact of trauma on victims' families.
Most research focuses on the negative impact of trauma on relationships; however, it is possible that trauma may also have some positive relationship effects. Interviews of trauma-exposed couples were coded for themes of the effect of trauma on their relationships.
Drawing on social support theory, this study examines the main and interactive effects of parental perceived stress and social support on externalizing behaviors in military youth.
Stress and the ways that families cope with stress often have a large impact on children's behavior, which may be particularly relevant for military families. This study investigated externalizing behaviors among military children and associations with family stress and social support.
Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), occurring in 15% of combatexposed military personnel, are associated with a decrease in couples' relationship quality.
Couples' relationship quality can be greatly impacted by stressful life events; posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) in at least one partner of the couple can increase that stress. The role of PTSS in couple functioning during reintegration was explored in this study.
Aggression by a random sample of female soldiers (N = 1, 185) toward their employed (n = 840) and unemployed (n = 345) civilian husbands was measured by the Conflict Tactics Scale.