Giff Sarah T, Renshaw Keith D, Carter Sarah P, Paige Lauren C
Department of Psychology, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Department of Medical & Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland.
Mil Psychol. 2020 Nov 23;32(6):432-440. doi: 10.1080/08995605.2020.1803725. eCollection 2020.
Military deployments are known to be stressful for both military service members (SMs) and their romantic partners. Little is known about how coping strategies used during deployment may relate to one's own and one's partner's relationship satisfaction following deployment. This project investigated the retrospective report of how 154 SMs and their romantic partners coped with deployment-related stress, using previously established coping constructs of problem-focused, emotion-focused, and avoidance coping. Examination of relative associations of coping strategies and mental health symptoms with SMs' and partners' relationship satisfaction showed that partners' emotion-focused coping was positively related to both SMs' and partners' relationship satisfaction, whereas partners' avoidance was negatively related to both their own and SMs' relationship satisfaction. Results highlight the importance of partner coping within military couples and point to potential strategies for coping with deployment that are associated with enhanced relationship functioning after deployment.
众所周知,军事部署对军人及其恋人来说压力都很大。对于部署期间所采用的应对策略如何与部署后的自身及伴侣关系满意度相关,人们知之甚少。本项目调查了154名军人及其恋人如何应对与部署相关压力的回顾性报告,采用了先前确立的聚焦问题、聚焦情绪和回避应对的应对结构。对应对策略和心理健康症状与军人及其伴侣关系满意度的相对关联进行的研究表明,伴侣的聚焦情绪应对与军人及其伴侣的关系满意度均呈正相关,而伴侣的回避应对与他们自身及军人的关系满意度均呈负相关。研究结果凸显了伴侣应对在军婚中的重要性,并指出了一些与部署后关系功能增强相关的潜在应对策略。