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Maternal Perspectives on Deployment and Child–Mother Relationships in Military Families
Author(s) -
Posada Germán,
Walker David,
Cardin JeanFrançois,
Nyaronga Dan,
Schwarz Rona,
Wadsworth Shelley MacDermid
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/fare.12165
Subject(s) - psychology , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , software deployment , depressive symptoms , attachment theory , military deployment , perception , clinical psychology , psychiatry , anxiety , psychotherapist , neuroscience , computer science , operating system
Using survey data from 292 mothers married to members of the U.S. military, the authors examined relations among military deployment factors, quality of maternal care, and child attachment behavior with the mother. The results revealed that maternal perceptions of quality of care, mothers' depressive symptoms, and fathers' involvement when not deployed were significantly associated with children's attachment behavior. In addition, fathers' combat exposure was negatively associated with children's attachment behavior. Mothers' quality of care partially mediated the association between fathers' involvement and children's attachment behavior as well as the association between mothers' depressive symptoms and children's attachment behavior. A notable finding of this study was that deployment‐related factors were both directly and indirectly related to children's attachment.