Does Deployment Keep Military Marriages Together or Break Them Apart? Evidence from Afghanistan and Iraq

Karney, Benjamin R.; Crown, John S.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-7064-0_2

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“…This is consistent with research examining U.S. military personnel (Karney & Crown, 2011;Sheppard, Malatras, & Isreal, 2010). Anderson et al (2011) report in their investigation of U.S. Army soldiers that 82% were satisfied or very satisfied with their marriages.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

“…The association between financial problems and relationship difficulties found in this study is consistent with Rowe et al (2012) and Karney and Crown (2011), who report that financial difficulties are significantly associated with a higher 294 M. Keeling et al risk of relationship dissolution compared with couples who are financially sound. Buckman et al (2011) suggest financial problems often accompany extended or longer deployments as spouses may have to reduce hours of work or leave work altogether to fulfil childcare commitments.…”

Section: Financial Difficultiessupporting

confidence: 90%

“…Karney and Crown (2011) report that one reason for their finding that deployment was not associated with relationship problems could be due to the specific formal and informal institutionalized sources of support offered to military personnel and their families. This is consistent with Orthner and Rose (2009), who state that secondary support systems such as those provided by a partner's work organization provide a supportive set of services that help make work-enforced separations more manageable.…”

Section: Unmarried Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Relationship Difficulties Among U.K. Military Personnel: Impact of Sociodemographic, Military, and Deployment-Related Factors

Keeling

Wessely

Dandeker

et al. 2015

Marriage & Family Review

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Military work, especially operational deployments, may impact the romantic relationships of military personnel. Using a subsample of 7,581 participants from a cohort study of U.K. military personnel (data collected between 2007 and 2009), the prevalence of relationship difficulties and associations with sociodemographic, military-, and deployment-related characteristics was examined. Most participants did not report experiencing relationship difficulties. Adjusted regression analyses indicate that childhood adversity, limited support for and from partners, being in unmarried relationships, financial problems, deploying for more than 13 months in 3 years, and work being above trade, ability, and experience were key factors associated with relationship difficulties. The

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Section: Financial Difficultiessupporting

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Section: Unmarried Relationshipsmentioning

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Relationship Difficulties Among U.K. Military Personnel: Impact of Sociodemographic, Military, and Deployment-Related Factors

Keeling

Wessely

Dandeker

et al. 2015

Marriage & Family Review

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“…Despite the theoretical strength of this perspective, the results of research exploring the effects of deployment on marital outcomes have provided inconsistent support. For example, Karney and Crown (, ) drew from military personnel records from 1996 through 2005 to examine the linear associations between cumulative time deployed and subsequent risk of divorce. Analyses restricted to service members married after 9/11 revealed a significant negative relationship, such that more time deployed was associated with a lower risk of divorce.…”

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Associations Between Prior Deployments and Marital Satisfaction Among Army Couples

Karney

Trail

2016

J of Marriage and Family

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Although the experience of deployments has been described as devastating to married life, evidence linking deployments directly to poorer marital functioning has been sparse. The analyses described in this article compare associations between prior deployments and current marital satisfaction across four different ways of measuring prior deployment within a large and representative sample of married Army service members and their spouses. Results indicate that the experience of prior deployments is associated with significantly lower current marital satisfaction among military couples. The association is disproportionately strong for first deployments and first cumulative months of deployment and weakens over subsequent deployment experiences. Most of these associations, but not all, can be accounted for by the fact that service members who have been deployed are more likely to have experienced traumatic events and to experience posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, both of which are independently associated with lower levels of marital satisfaction.

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“…In a recent investigation of the relationship between deployment and divorce, Karney and Crown (2011) controlled for branch of service and rank (enlisted versus officer). Given the small sample size of the current study, the authors were unable to control for branch of service but did control for rank.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alpha Asymmetry in Female Military Spouses Following Deployment

Werner–Wilson

Lianekhammy

Frey

et al. 2011

Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

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Does Deployment Keep Military Marriages Together or Break Them Apart? Evidence from Afghanistan and Iraq

Cited by 36 publications

References 32 publications

Relationship Difficulties Among U.K. Military Personnel: Impact of Sociodemographic, Military, and Deployment-Related Factors

Relationship Difficulties Among U.K. Military Personnel: Impact of Sociodemographic, Military, and Deployment-Related Factors

Associations Between Prior Deployments and Marital Satisfaction Among Army Couples

Alpha Asymmetry in Female Military Spouses Following Deployment

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