Abstract
Contemporary military service members and their families face unique stressors that impact the quality of romantic relationships. With divorce rates among military couples on the rise, the authors focused on the relationships between posttraumatic stress disorder, intimate partner violence, and attachment style. Subjects consisted of 20 heterosexual couples, where the male was the service member. Researchers used a series of path models to determine if a link existed between these variables. Results highlight the important role of spouses in the service members' experience of posttraumatic stress disorder, intimate partner violence, and attachment. Implications for research and working with military couples are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 218-230 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | Journal of Feminist Family Therapy |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2011 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Received March 7, 2011; accepted June 6, 2011. This research was supported in part by the Kathryn Louise Chellgren Endowment, University of Kentucky. Address correspondence to Laura M. Frey, Family Studies Department, University of Kentucky, 315 Funkhouser Building, Lexington, KY 40506-0054. E-mail: lco226@uky.edu
Keywords
- Attachment
- Intimate partner violence
- Military couples
- Military deployment
- Posttraumatic stress disorder
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Gender Studies
- Applied Psychology
