Military wives emotionally coping during deployment: Balancing dependence and independence
- Cafferky, B., & Shi, L. (2015). Military wives emotionally coping during deployment: Balancing dependence and independence. American Journal of Family Therapy, 43(3), 282-295. doi:10.1080/01926187.2015.1034633
- Individuals who experience the deployment of a spouse often encounter certain difficulties and develop coping strategies to deal with those difficulties. This qualitative study explored how military wives' coping mechanisms were related to their emotional connection with their deployed husbands. The findings demonstrated the use of three distinct types of coping mechanisms during deployment that affected the wives' emotional wellbeing.
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