Researchers conducted interviews with Soldiers’ wives regarding their stress and resilience across the deployment cycle. Wives cited an array of stressors that arose during the deployment cycle, including loss of control, managing perceived threats and uncertainty, and adjusting to changes.
This study examined interrelationships among combat exposure, family adjustment, and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), including symptom clusters (reexperiencing and avoidance, withdrawal and numbing, arousaland lack of control, and self-persecution), in a sample of Operation Dese
Army Reservists and their family members were interviewed seven times over the first year of the Reservists’ return from Iraq.
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.
This study’s focus was to determine whether combat exposure was associated with new-onset or continued alcohol misuse.
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
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.
This study examined the relationship between adolescents’ prosocial and aggressive behaviors and moral affect and cognition (feelings of guilt, shame and empathy, and perspective taking), negative emotionality, and biases in thinking.
In this cross-sectional, cohort study, researchers examined associations between parental military service and adolescent well-being (as measured by quality of life, depressed mood, and thoughts of suicide) using data from the 2008 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey.
Army families participated in a study regarding their history of geographic mobility, identification with Army life, personal well-being, and their children’s school achievement and social competence.