Changes in parenting and youth adjustment across the military deployment cycle
Flittner O’Grady, A. E., Whiteman, S. D., Cardin, J. F., & MacDermid Wadsworth, S. M. (2018). Changes in parenting and youth
adjustment across the military deployment cycle. Journal of Marriage and Family, 80(2), 569-581.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12457
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This study examined how deployment of a National Guard service member parent related
to changes in at-home partners parental responsiveness (e.g. comforting and supporting their child), at-home
parent’s depressive symptoms, and child adjustment (externalizing and internalizing behaviors) over the course of
the deployment cycle, and how these components related to one another. One hundred and fourteen families were
interviewed at four time points (pre-deployment, three months in to deployment, eight months in to deployment, and
reunion). A life course perspective was used to evaluate the multiple transitions of deployment, and to examine parent
and child behavioral changes. Overall, parental depressive symptoms and child maladjustment increased throughout
the deployment cycle until reunion, at which point these returned to pre-deployment levels.
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