Service Members

Reintegration following deployment is a pivotal time for returning service members and at-home partners. We test logic
derived from the relational turbulence model about depressive symptoms, relational uncertainty, and interference from a

Reintegration following deployment can be challenging for Service members and their at-home partners.

Although more than two million service members have experienced deployment since 2001, predictors of postdeployment family functioning remain unclear.

Service members' family functioning may be negatively affected following the return of a Service member.

A sample of 248 enlisted active duty females married to civilian spouses completed a self-report survey that asked about their own and their spouse’s violence. The survey also asked about their sex-role attitudes, marital satisfaction, alcohol use, childhood trauma, and depression.

Relationships between psychosocial risk factors and six patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV) among Active Duty females and their spouses were examined.