Findings from a large, randomized controlled trial of couple education are presented in this brief report. Married U.S. Army couples were assigned to either PREP for Strong Bonds (n = 248) delivered by U.S. Army chaplains or to a no-treatment control group (n = 228).
Teaching couples principles and skills for healthy relationships may improve marriage stability, particularly among couples enduring high levels of stress (e.g., military couples).
The purpose of this study was to investigate combat-related post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and couple relationships in Army couples. US Army combat veteran couples (N = 66 couples) completed self-report questionnaires on couple functioning, coercion, resilience, and PTSS.
Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) of Service members, as well as their partners' personal history of trauma or secondary trauma symptoms, may combine to decrease couples' functioning.
Purpose: The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to describe the coping behaviors used by Army wives during deployment separation, the perceived effectiveness of the coping behaviors used, and the correlation between the two variables.
It is important for military spouses to use effective coping strategies during deployment to avoid mental and physical health problems. Wives of Active Duty Soldiers completed surveys regarding coping strategies used during deployment and the perceived efficacy of those strategies.
With the continued US military presence throughout the world, it is important to understand the struggles of family members left behind during war, because they are important to the ‘‘success’’ of military marriages and potentially deployments.
Strategies that military couples use to manage contradicting experiences or competing demands during deployment may affect their marital satisfaction and personal stress. Contradictions that deployed Soldiers' wives recalled experiencing were coded and organized into themes.
Objective: Limited data suggest that the children of U.S. service members may be at increased risk for disordered-eating. To date, no study has directly compared adolescent military-dependents to their civilian peers along measures of eating pathology and associated correlates.
Many female youth suffer from disordered eating, and stress, including military stress, may play a role in eating habits. Eating disorder and depression symptoms, as well as social adjustment, were compared between female military and civilian dependents.