APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Communication between Military Couples during Deployment Is Linked to Health and Well-Being

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Carol Sigelman
    The George Washington University
  • Sarah Friedman
    The George Washington University
  • Jonah Kildon
    Tufts University

Abstract

Online surveys with 106 military couples during a deployment found that high-quality communication between partners, though not its amount, was associated with aspects of well-being (marital satisfaction, perceived stress, days incapacitated by health/mental health problems, and self-rated health), over and above the effects of selected military and family contextual factors.

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