Female National Guard and Reserve personnel completed qualitative surveys to examine the prevalence of stressors before and after deployment. Interpersonal stressors were most common across all data collection time points.
This study examines the romantic relationships of reservists following wartime deployment. Members of an Army Reserve unit and their partners participatedin seven waves of interviews in the year following the reservists’ return from deployment.
U.S. Army Reservists and partners of U.S. Army Reservists were interviewed about their relationships after the Reservists returned from a year-long deployment in Iraq.
There are approximately 1.5 million active duty service members in today’s military and approximately 726,000 (56.1 %) of these individuals are married. Therefore, healthy couple functioning is important for the military community.
Dual military couples were recruited from a military family medicine clinic and completed questionnaires about relationship functioning. Levels of physiological stress were also assessed in both partners.
Social support, including support from spouses, may buffer against posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.
The frequency of communication between male Army Soldiers and their at-home spouses during a recent deployment was examined to consider the relationship between communication and post-deployment posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms.
This study applied the relational turbulence model to the communication of U.S. service members and at-home partners following the return from a tour of duty by evaluating three turbulence markers: (a) relational maintenance, (b) partner responsiveness, and (c) turmoil appraisals.
Researchers examined how the relational turbulence model applied to post-deployment couple reunions.
Objective: The objectives of this study were to describe the prevalence and types of community reintegration problems among Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans who receive U.S.