- Kritikos, T. K., Comer, J. S., He, M., Curren, L. C., & Tompson, M. C. (2019). Combat experience and posttraumatic stress symptoms among military-serving parents: A meta-analytic examination of associated offspring and family outcomes. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(1),131-148. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-018-0427-5
- Data from 22 studies were combined in a systematic manner (i.e., meta-analysis) to examine associations between service members’ combat exposure, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and posttraumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) and their family difficulties, including: parenting problems, (e.g., decreased child engagement), family functioning, and offspring symptoms (e.g., child behavioral problems). Overall, the results suggest significant associations between military parental PTSD/PTSS and military family difficulties with small-to-medium effect sizes. Similarly, associations were found between parental combat and family difficulties, but the strength of these associations (i.e., effect size) were relatively small.
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