Table 2. Family Stress and Resource Comparisons Between Spouses Above or Below Community Norms for Psychological Distress^a.

	BSI Global Severity		BSI Depression		BSI Anxiety
	n=83	n=78	N=104	n=57	n=94	n=67
	Below	Above	Below	Above	Below	Above
BSI score	.18 (.10)	.76 (.38)***	.16 (.15)	1.07 (.51)***	.13 (.13)	.89 (.35)***
	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)
Mos. of deployment	16.22 (7.05)	17.44 (8.79)	16.13 (6.84)	18.04 (9.57)	16.03 (6.78)	17.91 (9.27)
	Percent (n)		Percent (n)		Percent (n)
Currently deployed	50.0% (26)	50.0% (26)	57.7% (30)	42.3% (22)	51.9% (27)	48.1% (25)
Recently returned	52.3% (57)	47.7% (52)	67.9% (74)	32.1% (35)	61.5% (67)	38.5% (42)
	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)
Age became parent	22.87 (4.81)	22.19 (4.62)	23.07 (4.87)	21.58 (4.30)	22.47 (5.00)	22.64 (4.32)
	Percent (n)		Percent (n)		Percent (n)
Not college graduate	46.8% (51)	53.2% (58)	61.5% (67)	38.5% (42)	47.7% (62)	43.1% (47)
College graduate	61.5% (32)	38.5% (20)	71.2% (37)	28.8% (15)	61.5% (32)	38.5% (20)
$ Struggling	34.6% (9)	65.4% (17)*	42.3% (11)	57.7% (15)*	50.0% (13)	50.0% (13)
$ Have necessities	47.5% (29)	52.5% (32)*	63.9% (39)	36.1% (22)*	59.0% (36)	41.0% (25)
$ Comfortable	60.8% (45)	39.2% (29)*	73.0% (54)	27.0% (20)*	60.8% (45)	39.2% (29)
	Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)		Mean (SD)
Social Support	49.60 (8.21)	45.83 (9.61)**	50.2 (8.09)	43.35 (9.20)***	49.52 (8.08)	45.33 (9.88)**
FILE (Stressor events)	16.80 (6.26)	23.60 (7.34)***	17.52 (5.83)	24.79 (8.22)***	17.95 (6.80)	23.11 (7.67)***
FAC (Strain)	0.80 (1.05)	1.71 (1.52)***	0.83 (1.01)	1.99 (1.62)***	0.88 (1.05)	1.73 (1.61)***

^*p<05,

^**p<01,

^***p<001 for T-tests or&chi²for education and financial situation variables

^aBSI community norms for non-clinical female adults used as cut-points: Global Severity= 0.35, Depression=0.36, Anxiety=0.44 (Derogatis, 1993).