Table 2.

Correlates of stress regarding deployment

	Husband	Wife
Stressor
Husband combat exposure^a	.28**	.27**
Resources
Status
Husband rank^a	−.12*	−.10
Husband income^a	−.14*	−.12*
Economic strain	.23**	.24**
Years of education	−.06	−.05
Military Experience
Military family	.02	.12
Husband year joined service^a	.04	−.06
Support
Connection with other Army families	.08	−.00
Need more support	.33**	.30**
Can get support	−.13*	−.15*
Marital Quality
Marital satisfaction	−.27**	−.31**
Spillover	.37**	.25**
Talk about Army	−.20**	−.21**
Negative communication	.25**	.30**
Children
Number of children	.05	.05
Child externalizing	.05	.21**
Child internalizing	.05	.16*
Perceptions
Army adjustment	−.20**	−.17**
Army concern	−.05	−.22**
Army value	−.04	−.07
Mission value	−.26**	−.23**

Husband report on these variables used to predict both husband and wife stress; all other variables use own report on the variable to predict own stress.

Note: Percent of variance accounted for is estimated by squaring the value of the correlation coefficient. Ns for each correlation ranged from 213 to 299.