McLeland Kelly C, Sutton Geoffrey W, Schumm Walter R
Evangel University, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2008 Dec;103(3):836-44. doi: 10.2466/pr0.103.3.836-844.
Previously, McLeland and Sutton (2005) assessed marital satisfaction among 46 male civilians and Reserve Component personnel, some of the latter having been alerted for a future deployment. Subsequently, marital satisfaction was also assessed for 74 male Active Component Army personnel who had recently returned from duty in a combat zone. Marital satisfaction scores were compared across personnel status. Mixed results were obtained from an analysis of variance comparing the five subgroups of personnel; however, when the three types of deployment groups were contrasted with the civilian and never-deployed military groups, substantial (ES = 0.55) and significant (p < .005) differences in marital satisfaction were observed. Although exploratory, these data indicate that predeployment and postdeployment situations are stressful for military members and may be associated with lower marital satisfaction for months before and months after a deployment, as well as during the deployment. Furthermore, changes in marital or relationship satisfaction may be more sensitive and timely as indicators of any stressful effects of deployments and separation on military families than changes in marital or relationship stability.
此前，麦克利兰和萨顿（2005年）对46名男性平民和后备役人员的婚姻满意度进行了评估，其中一些后备役人员已接到未来部署通知。随后，还对74名刚从战区执行任务归来的男性现役陆军人员的婚姻满意度进行了评估。对不同人员状态的婚姻满意度得分进行了比较。通过对五个人员子组进行方差分析得出了混合结果；然而，当将三类部署组与平民组和从未部署过的军事组进行对比时，观察到婚姻满意度存在显著（效应量=0.55）且显著（p<0.005）的差异。尽管这些数据具有探索性，但表明部署前和部署后的情况对军人来说压力较大，可能与部署前几个月、部署期间以及部署后几个月的婚姻满意度较低有关。此外，婚姻或关系满意度的变化作为部署和分离对军人家庭的任何压力影响的指标，可能比婚姻或关系稳定性的变化更敏感、更及时。
