Changing Family Roles-Across the Deployment Cycle

Abstract

OVERVIEW: This multi-informant, longitudinal investigation of Army National Guard families experience of deployment project focuses on a) the negotiation and management of family roles during deployment cycles, and b) on the impact of technology-based communication during deployment on later psychological distress and role functioning. PROGRESS TO DATE: Recruited 47 families with federal funding for a total of 106 since proposal submission. Completed 68 deployment and 233 reintegration data collections. Four conference presentations Findings Regarding Deployment Communication: At-home partners who reported higher levels of support also reported feeling closer to service members. On days when at-home partners reported receiving more support, they also reported feeling closer to service members. Finding Regarding Sibling Relationships: At-home partners reporting higher levels of warmth and lower levels of agonism also reported lower levels of externalizing behavior in their children. When at-home partners reported their children's relationship changed over the course of the study, so did their reports of externalizing behavior in their children.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1020691

Entities

People

  • Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Base Lines
  • Biomedical Research
  • British Columbia
  • Contractors
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Families (Human)
  • Military Families
  • National Guard
  • Negotiations
  • Operations Management
  • Professional Development
  • Recruits
  • Reliability
  • Students
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Psychological Intervention/Treatment for Stress, Anxiety, PTSD, and Related Emotional and Cognitive Health Symptoms.