Hitting Home: Relationships Between Recent Deployment, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Marital Functioning for Army Couples

Journal of Family Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 280-288

  Allen, Elizabeth S ^a   Rhoades, Galena K ^b   Stanley, Scott M ^b   Markman, Howard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

deployment; marriage; military; PTSD; relationship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SATISFACTION; SOLDIER; TIME; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PARENTING; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77953709245     PISSN: 08933200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019405     Document Type: Article

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