Stress and Resilience in Married Military Couples

Najera, Elizabeth; Landoll, Ryan R.; Pollock, Liz Davenport; Berman, Marissa; Ellis, Kathryn; Knies, Katherine; Seidler, Dustin A.; Bartone, Paul T.; Bowles, Stephen V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66192-6_11

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“…For example, Pflieger et al (2020) found that while deployments demonstrated positive outcomes for service members (e.g., social support, self-mastery), the same was not true for spouses during that time, in which they reported loneliness and disconnection. Najera et al (2017) suggested that stakeholders attend to the resilience of the family similarly to the resilience of the service member. Coupled with the NASEM report, researchers began exploring family resilience, such as the family systems concept espoused by Sullivan, Hawkins et al (2021), who framed resilience as associated with risk and protective factors across the individual, family, and community levels in military populations.…”

Section: Resilience and Military Familiesmentioning

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Military Spouse Mental Health Outcomes After Receiving Short-Term Counseling Services

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Research related to military spouses accessing community-based mental health care is limited. Evaluations identifying outcomes of anxiety, depressive symptoms, and resilience are scant. In this study, 71 military partners and spouses (age M = 39.79, SD = 11.32; 97.2% women) receiving counseling services at a nonprofit agency completed self-report measures of anxiety, depressive symptoms, and resilience pre–post a 6-week intervention. Less depressive symptoms predicted higher resilience at intake of services, with medium statistical significance. In pre–post analysis, no statistically significant changes were noted to anxiety, depressive symptoms, or resilience, with small to medium effect sizes and unimproved conditions with no clinical significance. This study represents an evaluation of services from a single site utilizing individual counseling services.

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Section: Resilience and Military Familiesmentioning

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Military Spouse Mental Health Outcomes After Receiving Short-Term Counseling Services

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Adjusting to a Partners’ Changed Appearance Following Military Combat-Related Appearance-Altering Injuries: The Challenges of Looking “Different” and How Life Continues

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Demographic Variation in Military Life Stress and Perceived Support Among Military Spouses

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Introduction Military spouses play a critical role in supporting military service members, and thus, their experiences may have a significant impact on the well-being, readiness, and resilience of the U.S. Armed Forces. Research suggests that military spouses experience unique stressors as a result of military life, but few studies have assessed demographic factors associated with their experiences of military life and perceived support. Materials and Methods Using data from the Millennium Cohort Family Study, a nationwide survey of 9,872 married spouses of service members with 2 to 5 years of military service, this study examined differences in experiences of military life and perceived support across multiple understudied subgroups of military spouses. Key outcomes included military-related stressors (e.g., deployment-related experiences), perceived social support, and perceived military efforts to provide support. Results Military life stress and perceived support differed across military spouse, service member, and family characteristics. Results indicated that spouses who are older than age 35 or are married to enlisted service members in the Army, Navy, or Marines are more likely to experience heightened military stress or less perceived social support. Dual-military couples reported experiencing less stress associated with military life and perceiving more social support and support from the military, compared with spouses who have never served in the military. Conclusion These findings may help guide effective channeling of resources and outreach to potentially vulnerable military families.

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Stress and Resilience in Married Military Couples

Cited by 5 publications

References 69 publications

Military Spouse Mental Health Outcomes After Receiving Short-Term Counseling Services

Military Spouse Mental Health Outcomes After Receiving Short-Term Counseling Services

Adjusting to a Partners’ Changed Appearance Following Military Combat-Related Appearance-Altering Injuries: The Challenges of Looking “Different” and How Life Continues

Demographic Variation in Military Life Stress and Perceived Support Among Military Spouses

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