Factors influencing postdeployment reintegration adjustment for U.S. service members and their spouses by spouse gender.

ABSTRACT: Research on spouses' adjustment after military deployment has focused primarily on female spouses of male service members; little is known about how adjustment differs by gender. We used Walsh's family resilience framework to examine communication, belief system, organizational factors, and other stressors, likely associated with postdeployment adjustment. Using Millennium Cohort Family Study data, logistic regressions assessed risk and protective factors on spouses' and service members' time to adjust, exploring whether spouse gender moderated their associations. Findings indicated that the association of (1) spouses' perceptions of their own mental functioning with spouses' and service members' adjustment and (2) spouses' mental readiness for deployment with service members' adjustment b

SUBMITTER: Hare A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12413068 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature