Active Component

Retrospective interviews were conducted with Army and Army National Guard wives to identify turning points and trajectories of marital satisfaction across the deployment cycle.

Objective: Women veterans have a higher prevalence of chronic pain relative to men. One hypothesis is that differential combat and traumatic sexual experiences and attenuated levels of social support between men and women may differentially contribute to the development and perpetuation of pain.

Social support variables and traumatic experiences were examined as predictors of pain outcomes in a group of EF/OIF/OND Veterans experiencing chronic pain, with particular attention to whether these relationships differed between men and women.

Relationships are increasingly impacted by military involvement, necessitating a deeper understanding of communication within these couples.

Partners of civilian and military members participated in a survey to understand communication difference among military and civilian couples.

One of therapists’ contemporary moral imperatives is to support American service members and their families regardless of personal position on the Global War on Terrorism.

Focus groups and interviews were held with military wives to gain insight into their experiences while their husbands were deployed during wartime.

The homecoming period following combat deployment can be as stressful to military spouses as the deployment itself.

Army wives participated in a study to examine whether personal resources (e.g., adaptive coping, maladaptive coping, and resilience) plays an important role in the relationship between positive emotions and depressive symptoms following a reunion after deployment.

The present study explored the impact of online communication and social networking sites on military spouses as they experienced a deployment of their spouse.