Families under stress : an assessment of data, theory, and research on marriage and divorce in the military / / Benjamin R. Karney, John S. Crown.

• Author: Karney, Benjamin R.
• TeilnehmendeR: Crown, John S.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Recent demands on the military have raised concerns about the impact of extended deployments on military marriages. To evaluate this impact, the authors draw on marital status data in service personnel records to estimate trends in marriage and marital dissolution between 1996 and 2005 and the specific effects of time deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq on subsequent risk of ending a marriage. The results generally run counter to expectations. Although rates of marital dissolution have increased since 2001 for most services and components, they had declined in the five years prior to 2001.

Table of Contents

Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; The Implications of Marriage for the Military; The Implications of the Military for Marriage; Overview of the Monograph; Chapter Two - Developing Models of Military Marriage; Marital Outcomes: Distinguishing Between Dissolution and Satisfaction; Marital Dissolution: Forming and Ending Marriages; Marital Satisfaction: Maintaining Marriages; Key Elements for Models of Success and Failure in Military Marriages

An Integrative Framework to Account for the Success and Failure of Military Marriages Chapter Three - Review of Empirical Research on Military Marriages; The Scope of This Review; Limitations of the Existing Literature: On Methods for Studying Military Marriages; Enduring Traits and Characteristics; Emergent Traits; Relationship Resources; Military Experiences; Nonmilitary Circumstances; Adaptive Processes; Barriers and Alternatives; Summary and Conclusions; Chapter Four - Trends in Marriage and Divorce: Reanalyzing Military Service Personnel Records

Problems in Existing Data on Marriage and Divorce in the Military Overview of Trend Analyses; Methods; Defining Marital Status Categories; Patterns and Trends in Marriage Within the Active Component; Patterns and Trends in Marital Dissolution Within the Active Component; Patterns and Trends in Marriage and Marital Dissolution Within the Coast Guard; Patterns and Trends in Marriage and Marital Dissolution Within the Reserve Component; Patterns and Trends in Marriage and Marital Dissolution Within the National Guard

Chapter Five - Evaluating Alternative Explanations for Rising Rates of Marital Dissolution in the Military Hypothesis No. 1: Coding Errors in the DMDC Database; Hypothesis No. 2: Policy Changes Affecting Active Army Officers; Hypothesis No. 3: Changes in Health Insurance Policy in 2002; Hypothesis No. 4: Demographic Changes in Response to the Threat of Deployment; Conclusion; Chapter Six - The Direct Effects of Deployments on Marital Dissolution; Methodological Issues; Modeling Deployment Effects; Deployment Effects in the Active Component; Deployment Effects in the Reserve Component

Deployment Effects in the National Guard Discussion of Deployment Effects; Chapter Seven - Conclusions and Future Directions for Research and Policy; Summary; General Discussion; Priorities for Future Research on Military Marriages; Implications for Supporting Military Marriages; Appendix - Marriage and Marital Dissolution Tables; References