The Family Adaptation Model: A Life Course Perspective

Bowen, Gary L.

doi:10.21236/ada221058

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“…This means there are approximately 1.1 million school-age and adolescent children (Department of Defense 2012) are affected by military relocation and deployment. Service in the Armed Forces is a lifestyle choice that impacts every aspect of a person's life because of the level of commitment and sacrifice of family and personal needs to meet the work mission (Bowen 1990a). Most children in a military family learn to cope with the demands of military life and are no better off (or worse) than children in other families.…”

Section: Stressors On Children In Military Familiesmentioning

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Coping with Stress: Supporting the Needs of Military Families and Their Children

Russo

Fallon

2014

Early Childhood Educ J

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Family dynamics and the individual differences of each family member can impact their stress. For families in the military, stress occurs regularly due to factors such a reassignments, deployments, and the frequency of changes. For some families, the stress that occurs over time helps family members to develop resiliency. Learning to cope with stress can teach skills in adapting to stressful lifestyle factors (e.g., mobility and relocation). Members of many military families develop these skills, while other families need a strong supportive network to facilitate their adjustment to military lifestyle stress. This is a review of the literature on the issues of how families and their children cope with and adapt to the stress of the military lifestyle. Suggestion are given for how families and school can work together to support children in military families to adapt to the military lifestyle. These suggestions can be applied to other types of transient families.

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Section: Stressors On Children In Military Familiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A strong emphasis is placed on the availability and supportiveness of adaptive resources (bB) for meeting personal, family, and environmental needs (Bowen 1990a;Bowen et al 1993). Family adaptive resources are key in helping families and their children adapt to the stressor events (aA).…”

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Coping with Stress: Supporting the Needs of Military Families and Their Children

Russo

Fallon

2014

Early Childhood Educ J

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“…We were also profoundly influenced by the ground-breaking contributions of Reuben Hill, Hamilton McCubbin, and Pauline Boss and their respective models of family stress, coping, and social support (Boss, 2002;Hill, 1949;McCubbin & Patterson, 1982) and by Sheldon Stryker's (1968) incorporation of identity theory within the symbolic interactionism tradition. In the early 1990s, based largely on the seminal work of Glen Elder (1986), we begin to apply a life course perspective to examine variation across time in the life experiences of service members and their families, in particular variation in the management of the responsibilities associated with military life and duties (Bowen, 1990). Paul Gade's (1991) application of life course to the study of military families was instructive in our work, as well as concept of ''possible selves'' from the work of Hazel Markus and Paula Nurius (1986).…”

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The Resiliency Model of Role Performance for Service Members, Veterans, and their Families: A Focus on Social Connections and Individual Assets

Martin

2011

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment

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The Road of Life, a life course metaphor, is used as the backdrop for a theoretically anchored model, The Resiliency Model of Role Performance, which has been developed to account for variation in the ability of service members and their families to meet their role responsibilities in the context of military life and duties. This model incorporates a focus on both individual assets and the social context in which individuals and families are embedded. The model provides a conceptual anchor for the Support and Resiliency Inventory-an online assessment tool for service members and the civilian spouses of service members. Implications for testing the model and its further development are discussed.

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“…The second is to determine variations in the level of stressors, adaptive resources, and family adaptation outcomes of soldiers across the respective family pattern types. Its intent is to build upon earlier reports by Bowen (1989aBowen ( , 1990, Orthner and Bowen (1990), and Orthner, Zimmerman, Bowen, Gaddy, and Bell (1991) that have focused on defining, modeling, and studying the adaptation of soldiers to life in the U.S. Army. The analyses in this report represent more descriptive theoretical models of family adaptation in the Army in anticipation of further detailed modeling and statistical analysis using data from the AFRP survey.…”

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Family Patterns and Adaptation in the U.S. Army

Orthner¹,

Zimmerman²,

Meehan³

1992

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This research supports the Army.Famil Action Plans by providing data and analysis on soldiers living in one of four family patterns: civilian wife mairiages, civilian hus3band marriages, dual military marriages, ant single parent 'od. This is the first major investigation comparing the stresses, strengths, and adaptations of soldiers in each of these types of family relationships. The data were collected from a random sample of 11,035 soldiers in ,989. The analyses were conducted on 7,524 married and single parent soldiers in the sample. Civilian spouse marriages were examined, whether the spouse wa'ý co-located with tre soldier or not. Dual military marriages I.ncludcd those in which both partners were on active duty. Single parents included nonmarried soldiers who had custody of children living in their households. Fit.al analyses ccmpared soldiers across gender and pay grades on tne following variables: work stress, family stress, psychological strengths, warripge aid family strengths, social and conmrunity resources, leadership support, ,:cpirg and adjustment, and Army-fomilY fit, (continued) 14. SUBJECT TERMS 15. %UMBER OF PA-ES lYami ly Single parents 7] Adjustment Adaptati on 16. PRICE CODE Str..bs Ccumnunity 17. s rCURI CLASSIFCA.ION 10. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 19. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION 20, LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT

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The Family Adaptation Model: A Life Course Perspective

Cited by 14 publications

References 94 publications

Coping with Stress: Supporting the Needs of Military Families and Their Children

Coping with Stress: Supporting the Needs of Military Families and Their Children

The Resiliency Model of Role Performance for Service Members, Veterans, and their Families: A Focus on Social Connections and Individual Assets

Family Patterns and Adaptation in the U.S. Army

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