Spouses' ability to cope with deployment and adjust to air force family demands: Identification of risk and protective factors

Armed Forces and Society

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 286-306

  Spera, Christopher ^a,b  

^a ICF International

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Deployment; Military families; Risk and protective factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849092689     PISSN: 0095327X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0095327X08316150     Document Type: Article

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