Military Families' Health and Well-Being

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This book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a critical theoretical perspective on their position and the risks and challenges affecting them. Authors explore the tension between demands made by two greedy institutions—the military and the family—and how the well-being of families is negotiated between the two. Uniquely, the book employs an integrative approach to observing and analyzing military-specific risk and protective factors for health outcomes of military families on various social-ecological levels, including relationship satisfaction and dissatisfaction, intimate partnership violence, parent-child relationships, child well-being, psychoactive substance abuse, depression, and PTSD. Throughout the chapters, the authors analyze research findings that reveal new health outcomes and present an empirically-tested model of military-specific risk and protective factors. 
Janja Vuga Beršnak is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
Jelena Juvan is Assistant Professor in the Defense Research Centre in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
Živa Humer is Research Fellow at the Peace Institute at the Institue for Contemporary Social and Political Studies in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
Andreja Živoder is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Researcher for the Centre of Social Psychology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
Ljubica Jelušič is Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. . 
Alenka Švab is Professor of Sociology in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 

Bojana Lobe is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
This book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a critical theoretical perspective on their position and the risks and challenges affecting them. Authors explore the tension between demands made by two greedy institutions—the military and the family—and how the well-being of families is negotiated between the two. Uniquely, the book employs an integrative approach to observing and analyzing military-specific risk and protective factors for health outcomes of military families on various social-ecological levels, including relationship satisfaction and dissatisfaction, intimate partnership violence, parent-child relationships, child well-being, psychoactive substance abuse, depression, and PTSD. Throughout the chapters, the authors analyze research findings that reveal new health outcomes and present an empirically-tested model of military-specific risk and protective factors. 
Provides insight into Slovenian military families that will be of interest to scholars of military family and well-being Authored by a multidisciplinary team of researchers including sociologists, psychologists, and methodologists Encompasses data from 800+ surveys and 40+ interviews with service members, spouses, and civilians

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Janja Vuga Beršnak

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