Department of Human Development and Family Science, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
Fam Process. 2020 Mar;59(1):158-172. doi: 10.1111/famp.12395. Epub 2018 Oct 7.
Military members and their spouses (n = 223 families) were selected from an Active Duty Army installation and assessed with regard to their connections with the military community, their levels of coping with military culture demands, and their reports of individual (depression and life satisfaction) and family well-being. Guided by the contextual model of family stress and the social organization theory of action and change, results from a structural equation model indicated that military community connections, for both military members and their civilian spouses, were related to coping with the military culture and its demands, which in turn was related to both individual and family well-being. Unique actor and partner effects also emerged where both active duty military members' and their civilian spouses' perceptions of military community connections influenced the civilian spouses' satisfaction with military life, but only the active duty military members' community connections influenced their military-specific coping. Additionally, the associations between military-specific coping and individual and family well-being only had actor effects. When examined within the context of important military culture elements, namely rank and extent of military transitions (deployment and relocation), these core findings linking communities to coping and well-being were unchanged. Implications for theory, future research, and practice are shared.
军事人员及其配偶（n=223 个家庭）从现役陆军基地中选出，评估其与军事社区的联系、应对军事文化需求的能力，以及他们个人（抑郁和生活满意度）和家庭福祉的报告。基于家庭压力的情境模型和行动与变化的社会组织理论，结构方程模型的结果表明，军事社区的联系（军人及其军属配偶）与应对军事文化及其需求有关，而这又与个人和家庭福祉有关。还出现了独特的主体和伙伴效应，现役军人和他们的军属配偶对军事社区联系的看法影响了军属配偶对军事生活的满意度，但只有现役军人的社区联系影响了他们的特定军事应对。此外，特定军事应对与个人和家庭福祉之间的关联只有主体效应。当在重要的军事文化要素（即军衔和军事过渡程度（部署和调动））的背景下进行检查时，这些将社区与应对和福祉联系起来的核心发现并没有改变。本文还分享了对理论、未来研究和实践的启示。
