Female civilian spouses of Active Duty Service members were surveyed to compare distress and stressor levels to community averages. The relationships among family stress and strain, social support, demographic variables, and distress were also assessed.
The records of married U.S. Air Force personnel were reviewed to compare rates of spouse abuse before and after combat deployments to Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom (OIF/OEF).
Male Veterans with life expectancies of less than 12 months and nine of their family members completed a semi-structured interview to assess their spiritual needs, the spiritual care they have received, and their satisfaction with spiritual care.
A nationally representative sample of families was studied to examine the prevalence of maternal and paternal spanking of children at age three and age five. Associations between spanking and children’s externalizing behavior and receptive vocabulary at age nine were also examined.
Siblings of current or recent Service members were interviewed to explore how having a family member in the military impacts their family.
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.
Interviews and focus groups were conducted with principals, counselors, and teachers at military-connected public schools to explore the broad impact of military-connected student enrollment on schools and educators.
Qualitative data from students, parents, and school staff were used to examine transition-related stressors experienced by mobile military students (i.e., those who experience multiple military-related moves), the efforts utilized to help these students cope with stress, and to identify strategie
This qualitative study used an ecological framework to explore educator perceptions of family-school communication at two elementary schools serving U.S. Military families.
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.