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Views from the homefront : the experiences of youth and spouses from military families / Anita Chandra ... [et al.].

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Views from the homefront : the experiences of youth and spouses from military families / Anita Chandra ... [et al.].
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2011.

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Chandra, Anita.
Description
xxv, 96 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
As the United States continues deployments of service members to support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is increasingly important to understand the effects of this military involvement, not only on service members but also on the health and well-being of their spouses and youth. The purpose of this report is to examine the functioning of a sample of youth in military families who applied to a free camp for children of military personnel and to specifically assess how these youth are coping with parental deployment. The report addresses the general well-being of military youth during and after parental deployment, with attention to their emotional, social, and academic functioning. It also examines the challenges that their nondeployed caregivers face. The study includes quantitative and qualitative components: three waves of phone surveys with youth and nondeployed caregivers, and in-depth interviews with a subsample of caregivers. The researchers found that children and caregivers who had applied to attend the camp confronted significant challenges to their emotional well-being and functioning. Four factors in particular (1) caregiver emotional well-being, (2) more cumulative months of deployment, (3) National Guard or Reserve status, and (4) quality of caregiver-youth communication were strongly associated with greater youth or caregiver difficulties.
Subject
  • Children of military personnel
  • Family Relations
  • Adolescent
  • Anxiety, Separation
  • Child
  • Military Personnel
  • Stress, Psychological
  • Stress, Physiological
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The experience of military youth in the study sample -- The experiences of caregivers in the study sample.
ISBN
  • 9780833051271 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 083305127X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010047953
OCLC
682072099
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library