Military

The “Global War on Terrorism” has resulted in reservists being deployed at an ever increasing rate.

Army Reservists and their family members were interviewed seven times over the first year of the Reservists’ return from Iraq.

The association between alcohol use and substantiated incidents of nonmutual and mutual domestic violence between U.S. Army enlisted soldiers and their spouses was examined for the period 1998–2004. Maltreatment was always more severe in nonmutual incidents.

There is sometimes a distinction made between nonmutual domestic violence, in which one partner is the perpetrator and the other partner is the victim, and mutual domestic violence, in which both partners are (at times) perpetrator and victim.

Context High rates of alcohol misuse after deployment have been reported among personnel returning from past conflicts, yet investigations of alcohol misuse after return from the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are lacking.

This study’s focus was to determine whether combat exposure was associated with new-onset or continued alcohol misuse.

Objectives: The study examined whether elevated rates of externalizing behaviors following deployment could be explained by internalizing symptoms (depression, anxiety, and PTSD symptoms), and health of the social environment (unit leadership, organizational support, and stigma/barriers to care).

Researchers examined whether rates of externalizing behavior (e.g., alcohol consumption, aggressive behavior) four and nine months after deployment were related to various internalizing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or elements of the social environmen

We examined the role of contextualized, group-level ratings of a family-supportive work climate on the link between individuals' aggressiveness and marital quality in a sample of 1,604 married male active duty soldiers from brigades in the southeastern United States.

This study examined the role of a family-supportive work climate and the link between Service members’ aggressiveness and their overall marital quality. Family-supportive work climates were found to have a positive influence on marital quality.