Anxiety, Stress, & Relationships Lab

Department of Psychology

 

Relationships Among Military Personnel

This project is funded by the Department of Defense and headed by Elizabeth Allen, Ph.D. at University of Colorado - Denver. We gathered data from over 500 male Army soldiers who had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan within the past 2 years and their female, civilian partners. Subsequently, those couples in which the soldier exhibited some level of PTSD symptoms moved into a longitudinal study with 4 times points, spaced 6 months apart. The constructs being assessed include information about deployments (e.g., level of combat exposure), basic relationship processes (e.g., communication), psychological symptoms (e.g., depression, PTSD), parenting, and many trauma-related relationship processes (e.g., disclosure of trauma, reactions to disclosures), among others. Final data collection is scheduled to be complete in Spring 2016.