Predicting the Extent and Stressfulness of Problem Rumors at Home among Army Wives of Soldiers Deployed Overseas on a Humanitarian Mission
| Autor: | D. Bruce Bell, Walter R. Schumm, Benjamin Knott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Male Somalia media_common.quotation_subject Family support 0211 other engineering and technologies Ignorance 02 engineering and technology Criminology Altruism Unit (housing) 050602 political science & public administration medicine Humans Spouses General Psychology media_common 021110 strategic defence & security studies Communication 05 social sciences Loneliness 0506 political science Military Personnel Spouse Software deployment Female Support system medicine.symptom Psychology Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Psychological Reports. 89:123-134 |
| ISSN: | 1558-691X 0033-2941 |
| DOI: | 10.2466/pr0.2001.89.1.123 |
| Popis: | Nearly 500 civilian wives of enlisted soldiers from Fort Drum, New York were surveyed about the extent to which they experienced, as problems, rumors about what was happening in Somalia and when their soldier would return from the Operation Restore Hope deployment to Somalia in 1993. Rumors, as problems, were cited less frequently than loneliness, fears about the soldier's safety, or ignorance of the situation in Somalia but more frequently than problems with communication, finances, or legal issues. The strongest initial predictor of such problems was having communication problems with the soldier. Other significant predictors included length of deployment, soldier's rank, and unit support systems. More frequent use of telephone or regular mail, however, did not appear to reduce such rumors. Stressfulness of rumors appeared to be reduced by good unit leadership, good family support groups, and better emotional adaptability to deployment by spouses, while increased by reliance on surface mail for communication with one's deployed spouse. Subsequent analyses indicated that having fears about the safety of one's soldier or concerns about not knowing what was going on in Somalia were also significantly correlated with rumors as problems. Out results may support hypotheses that rumors serve to fill gaps in official information and justify spouses' anxieties regarding the safety of their deployed soldier. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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