Associations Between Prior Deployments and Marital Satisfaction Among Army Couples
Associations Between Prior Deployments and Marital Satisfaction Among Army Couples
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DOI：
10.1111/jomf.12329
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发表时间：
2017-02-01
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6
通讯作者：
Trail, Thomas E.
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作者：
Karney, Benjamin R.;Trail, Thomas E.
尽管部署的经历被描述为对婚姻生活的毁灭性打击，但将部署与较差的婚姻功能直接联系起来的证据却很少。本文描述的分析比较了先前部署与当前婚姻满意度之间的关联，通过四种不同的方法来衡量先前部署的大量已婚陆军军人及其配偶的代表性样本。结果表明，军人夫妇当前的婚姻满意度明显较低，与之前的服役经历有关。这种关联在首次部署和部署的前几个月累积中表现得异常强烈，而在随后的部署经验中则减弱。这些关联中的大多数（但不是全部）可以通过这样一个事实来解释：已被部署的军人更有可能经历过创伤事件和经历创伤后应激障碍症状，这两者都与较低水平的婚姻满意度独立相关。
Although the experience of deployments has been described as devastating to married life, evidence linking deployments directly to poorer marital functioning has been sparse. The analyses described in this article compare associations between prior deployments and current marital satisfaction across four different ways of measuring prior deployment within a large and representative sample of married Army service members and their spouses. Results indicate that the experience of prior deployments is associated with significantly lower current marital satisfaction among military couples. The association is disproportionately strong for first deployments and first cumulative months of deployment and weakens over subsequent deployment experiences. Most of these associations, but not all, can be accounted for by the fact that service members who have been deployed are more likely to have experienced traumatic events and to experience post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms, both of which are independently associated with lower levels of marital satisfaction.