Pilot Data on the Nature of Trauma Exposure in Military Couples

Beck, Austin; Ruhlmann, Lauren M.; Goff, Briana S. Nelson

doi:10.21061/jvs.5

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“…Given the differences in how service member and civilian spousal marital quality contributed to stress management and the proliferation of that stress, practitioners and policymakers are encouraged to take a nuanced approach to serving with military couples. Although the interrelationships between partners appear to be unidirectional with regard to the study's specific variables of interest, the well‐being of the civilian spouse is nevertheless important for service member well‐being and readiness (Beck et al, 2018; O'Neal et al, 2016). As such, working to reduce the negative impact of military‐related stress on the civilian partner will likely have a positive systemic effect on the couple dyad, thus promoting service member well‐being.…”

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Military‐related stress, self‐efficacy, and anxiety: Investigating the role of marital quality in military couples

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This study utilizes a stress process framework in conjunction with a crossover perspective to conceptualize how stress, specifically military‐related stress, manifests within individuals and couples. An actor–partner interdependence mediation modeling approach was used in a cross‐sectional sample of 243 military couples to examine whether difficulties managing military‐related stress may erode one's own self‐efficacy and, in turn, contribute to greater anxiety (actor effects) and/or one's partner's self‐efficacy and, in turn, anxiety (partner effects). Further, the potential moderating impact of marital quality was explicated in the model to understand if greater marital quality might buffer the impact of military‐related stress. There was support for the stress process model primarily regarding actor effects; fewer partner effects emerged. One's own perceptions of military‐related stress, specifically higher stress, were related to lower levels of their own self‐efficacy, and, consequently, higher anxiety, but military‐related stress did not directly affect the partner's self‐efficacy or anxiety. Both service members' and civilian spouses' marital quality had ramifications for civilian spouses' self‐efficacy, specifically a buffering effect; that was not the case regarding civilian spouse effects on the military member. Findings point to specific ways in which military stressors have implications for personal well‐being, the role of a strong couple relationship in buffering stress, especially for civilian spouses, and concomitant leverage points for supporting both individual and couple well‐being.

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Military‐related stress, self‐efficacy, and anxiety: Investigating the role of marital quality in military couples

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“…To this end, this study explores the spouses of military service members. Given their experiences, military spouses provide an especially useful window into the topic, as they experience multiple types of spillover at multiple times, and evidence already points to a close relationship between the well-being of one spouse and that of the other (e.g., Beck, Ruhlmann, & Nelson Goff, 2018;Drummet, Coleman, & Cable, 2004). There are several reasons military spouses are unique.…”

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Health Spillovers among Military Spouses: Evidence from Active Duty, Veteran, and Surviving Spouses

Schnittker¹

2019

JVS

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Using three subsamples from the 2010 National Survey of Veterans (Westat 2010), this study explores health spillovers-the effects of the experience of one person on the health of another-from service personnel to their spouses. Regression models point to broad and substantial spillovers, occurring over multiple stages of a military career. The spouses of active duty personnel report worse health relative to those living with a veteran, and this difference in health is comparable to the wellestablished effect of widowhood on health. In addition, the health of military spouses declines when their spouses suffer from service-connected disabilities. There is no evidence that the widowhood effect is larger when the death is service-connected, nor is there evidence that caring for a disabled spouse is more detrimental when it happens at younger ages, a common situation among military spouses. Nonetheless, the health of military spouses is impacted by an assortment of spillovers related indirectly and directly to military service, and occurring both among those married to active personnel and those married to veterans.

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Harnessing the Healing Power of Relationships in Trauma Recovery: a Systematic Review of Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD

Liebman

Whitfield

Sijercic

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Curr Treat Options Psych

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Pilot Data on the Nature of Trauma Exposure in Military Couples

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Military‐related stress, self‐efficacy, and anxiety: Investigating the role of marital quality in military couples

Military‐related stress, self‐efficacy, and anxiety: Investigating the role of marital quality in military couples

Health Spillovers among Military Spouses: Evidence from Active Duty, Veteran, and Surviving Spouses

Harnessing the Healing Power of Relationships in Trauma Recovery: a Systematic Review of Cognitive-Behavioral Conjoint Therapy for PTSD

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