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.
Deployment-based separations, during which military spouses' communication is limited and their uncertainty heightened, present numerous challenges to spouses' enactment of relational maintenance.
The author of this article conducted interviews with civilian wives of military Service members in order to illustrate the ways in which partners maintain their relationships during deployment and what factors affect relationship maintenance.
Wartime deployment involves prolonged separation and creates uncertainty, fear, and disorganization in families (M. J. Peebles-Kleiger & J. H. Kleiger, 1994). This study examined how military wives/fiancées reported coping with the demands they associated with spousal deployment.
Interviews with female spouses or fianceés of deployed male Service members were conducted to examine relational coping during spousal deployment.