Military REACH Review | August 2023 Newsletter
382 Service members were surveyed during their noncombat deployment about how frequently they communicated with their family.
T/F: Service members who reported more frequent communication with their family tended to report higher levels of mental distress.
- A daily diary study of the romantic partner relationship dynamics associated with anger and other posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms (Hyatt et al., 2023)
- The roles of self-regulation and partner regulation on romantic relationship quality (Ferguson & Karantzas, 2023)
- Positive and negative family communication and mental distress: Married service members during a non-combat deployment (Sullivan et al., 2023)
- Families transition, too! Military families transition out of service: A scoping review of research from the Five Eyes nations (Dodge et al., 2023)
- Understanding a time of high risk for suicide: Adversities associated with separation from military service among National Guard and Reserve service members (Wang et al., 2023)
- Mothers’ beliefs about emotions and authoritarian parenting as predictors of young children’s behavioral problems (Garner et al., 2023)
- Family life education for military families: An exploratory study of family program use (Peterson & O'Neal, 2023)
- A peer veteran approach to the caring letters suicide prevention program: Preliminary data (Livingston et al., 2023)
- Partner effects: Analyzing service member and spouse drinking over time (Joneydi et al., 2023)
- ‘We need a culture change’: Military sexual trauma through the lens of rape culture (Johnson et al., 2023)
- Identifying mental health profiles among adolescents who experienced a recent parental deployment or military-related family separation (Lucier-Greer et al., 2023)
- Adolescent mental health in military families: Evidence from the Canadian Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (Kinley et al., 2023)
By: Kaylee Short , Graduate Research Assistant, Military REACH
The Purple Heart has origins as the oldest active metal in the U.S. military. It's given to Service members who have been injured or killed due to an enemy attack/action. This article will review a brief history of the Purple Heart and discuss ways we can honor the ~1.8 million Purple Heart recipients.
This award honors leadership excellence within NCFR and the overall discipline of family science. Haley was selected as the award winner because of her exceptional leadership, specifically during her time as an undergraduate student and her graduate career.