Military adolescents' experiences of change and discontinuity: Associations with psychosocial factors and school success
- O'Neal, C. W., Peterson, C., & Mancini, J. A. (2023). Military adolescents' experiences of change and discontinuity: Associations with psychosocial factors and school success. Family Relations, 72(3), 1118-1137. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12740
- Guided by the contextual model of family stress, this study investigated whether military stressors such as parental deployment and recent relocation affected military-connected adolescents’ psychosocial health (i.e., social support and depressive symptoms), and, in turn, their school success. A sample of 821 military-connected adolescents was used to investigate the direct and indirect relationships among parental deployment, recent relocation, social support, depressive symptoms, and school success (i.e., grades, school engagement, and homework commitment). The results varied depending on whether adolescents attended school on or off the military installation. For instance, while parental deployment and relocation were not implicated in school success for adolescents attending school on the installation, for those attending school off the installation, these stressors were related to school success through psychosocial health.
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