Naval Health Research Center.
Department of Psychology.
J Fam Psychol. 2022 Aug;36(5):791-802. doi: 10.1037/fam0000949. Epub 2021 Dec 20.
The objective of this study was to predict marital instability from a range of risk and protective factors in a large, representative cohort of military couples participating in the Millennium Cohort Family Study. Online and paper surveys were administered to service members and their spouses in 2011-2013, which captured couples' demographic and background characteristics, family stressors, military experiences, and mental health risk factors as well as protective factors including family communication, and military support and satisfaction. Approximately 3 years later, change in marital status was examined among participants who completed a follow-up survey ( = 6,494 couples). Hierarchical logistic regression models indicated that couples' younger age, lower education, childhood trauma, spouse employment status, mental health, and lower levels of communication contributed significant unique risk for marital instability. Moderation analyses by service member gender and spouse military status revealed that social isolation increased odds of marital instability for couples in which the service member was male but was not evidenced for couples in which the service member was female. Further, combat experience increased odds of marital instability for couples in which the service member was married to a veteran spouse but not for service members married to a dual-military or civilian spouse. Findings from this study can be used to target specific couple risk factors for marital instability and to tailor programs to at-risk subgroups. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
本研究的目的是从一系列风险和保护因素中预测婚姻不稳定，这些因素来自参与千禧年队列家庭研究的一个大型、代表性的军人夫妇队列。2011-2013 年，通过在线和纸质调查向军人及其配偶进行了调查，这些调查涵盖了夫妇的人口统计学和背景特征、家庭压力源、军人经历以及心理健康风险因素和保护因素，包括家庭沟通以及军人支持和满意度。大约 3 年后，对完成随访调查的参与者（=6494 对夫妇）的婚姻状况变化进行了检查。分层逻辑回归模型表明，夫妇年龄较小、教育程度较低、童年创伤、配偶就业状况、心理健康状况以及沟通水平较低，这些因素对婚姻不稳定具有显著的独特风险。按军人性别和配偶军人身份进行的调节分析表明，社会孤立增加了军人是男性的夫妇婚姻不稳定的几率，但军人是女性的夫妇中没有这种情况。此外，对于军人配偶是退伍军人的夫妇来说，战斗经历增加了婚姻不稳定的几率，但对于军人配偶是双军人或平民的夫妇来说，则没有这种情况。本研究的结果可用于针对婚姻不稳定的特定夫妇风险因素，并针对高风险亚组定制计划。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2022 APA，保留所有权利）。
