A Model of Family Factors and Individual and Unit Readiness: Literature Review

Campbell, Charlotte H.; Campbell, Roy C.; Ramsberger, Peter F.; Schultz, Sheila; Stawarski, Cathy

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“…With approximately half of all enlisted soldiers and almost 70 percent of officers married, 6 Army families and their roles in soldier readiness and retention constitute an important area of study for the Army. The literature has shown how a variety of family factors, including emotional stress, [7][8][9] the ability of the family to adapt to the Army way of life, 10 and the spouse's support of a military career play a critical part in soldier readiness [11][12][13] and contribute to whether the soldier will remain in the Army. [14][15][16] Family adaptation has been used as an outcome variable when researchers studied the family's impact on retention and soldier readiness.…”

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Does Ethnicity Affect the Coping of Military Spouses?

Westhuis

Fafara

Ouellette

2006

Armed Forces & Society

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This article presents results of an exploratory study of how Army military spouses with children cope with everyday stresses varies based on ethnic background. The study used data from 4,464 respondents of the 2001 Survey of Army Families IV (SAF IV). SAF IV, fielded April through July 2001, was used to reduce the confounding associated with the Iraq war. The results of five-stepwise regressions indicated that there were four common predictors and four ethnically specific predictors of how spouses cope. It was also found that the major sample (Caucasian) was most reflective of the analysis of the total sample of 4,464. Two of the primary predictors of spouse coping were the Problems Experienced Scale and the spouses’ ability to keep themselves well informed about the Army. Study findings suggest that while similarities in coping exist between ethnic groups, there are also important ethnic differences in coping relevant to family policy and practice. These differences warrant further study based on a larger sample of spouses

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Does Ethnicity Affect the Coping of Military Spouses?

Westhuis

Fafara

Ouellette

2006

Armed Forces & Society

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“…Although readiness is acknowledged as an important outcome of military programs and services, it is rarely defined in a manner that allows for systematic study (Campbell et al, 1991;Oliver, 1990). Exceptions to this trend include the unpublished technical report by Harris et al (1995) and research by Burnam et al (1992), Kerce (1995), Kerce et al (1999), and Schwerin et al (2002).…”

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“…Burnam et al, 1992;Campbell et al, 1991;Harris et al, 1995;Kerce, 1995;Kralj, Sadacca, Campbell, & Kimmel, 1988;Oliver, 1990). The first dimension, unit cohesion, represents the degree to which units share norms and work together.…”

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The Relationship Between Personnel Support Programs and Readiness: A Model to Guide Future Research

McGonigle

Casper

Meiman

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Military Psychology

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In this article we provide a conceptual model for investigating the relationship between personnel support programs and readiness. The model categorizes personnel support programs and defines readiness in a manner that allowed for a systematic review of their relationship in the military and civilian literature. The model also defines a set of mediating variables to help explain the relationship between personnel support programs and readiness. After reviewing the structure of the model, we summarize existing research on the mediated relationships between the two. We conclude by providing recommendations for future research on the role of personnel support programs in readiness.In recent years, the armed services have undergone tremendous changes. The total number of service members has steadily decreased over the last 20 years, and changes in family patterns, gender roles, and general societal and economic trends have caused the armed services to take an active interest in programs to attract and re-

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“…Une part importante du sexisme dans la communauté militaire réside 6. À titre d'exemple, voir Spellman, 1996 ;Montalvo, 1976 ;McKain, 1976 ;Stanton, 1976 ;McCubbin et al, 1978 ;Orthner, 1980 ;Szoc, 1982 ;Kohen, 1984 ;Segal, 1986 ;Orthner era/., 1986 ;Pittman étal., 1988 ;Bowenefa/., 1989 ;Orthner étal, 1990;Beller al, 1991, et Campbell et al, 1991 dans son appropriation de l'idéologie patriarcale pour laquelle la division du travail selon les sexes est naturelle. Cette division sexuée du travail est vraiment la pierre angulaire de la communauté militaire canadienne.…”

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La violence dans la communauté militaire

Harrison¹

2005

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This paper applies a broad definition of violence to the physically and economically vulnerable situation of Canadian military wives. Its reports some of the results of an institutional ethnography of Canadian military wives ' work which was carried out during the early 1990s, and which made some important discoveries about how the military's priorities and forms of organization structure the way the military treats wives, tries to control wives, and benefits from wives' unpaid work. The military's major priority, combat readiness, necessitates the control the military exercises over its members and the specific mechanism of military control known as combat unit bonding. Combat bonding is in turn characterized by cultural homogeneity and its corollaries of sexism, racism, derogation of, and violence against women. Nevertheless, the military extends a diluted form of combat bonding to military wives, in order to exert control over them and appropriate their unpaid labour, loyalty — and frequently, silence. Combat-related obsession with unit morale also often translates into the cover-up of problems, which is a consideration that adds to the isolation of the many survivors of woman abuse who are members of the military community. The greater public accountability of the Canadian military which may result from the Somalia Inquiry makes this an especially opportune time to study woman abuse and other forms of family violence in the Canadian military community.

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A Model of Family Factors and Individual and Unit Readiness: Literature Review

Cited by 4 publications

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Does Ethnicity Affect the Coping of Military Spouses?

Does Ethnicity Affect the Coping of Military Spouses?

The Relationship Between Personnel Support Programs and Readiness: A Model to Guide Future Research

La violence dans la communauté militaire

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