TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Suicide exposure and posttraumatic stress disorder: is marriage a protective factor for veterans?
JO  - Journal of child and family studies
A1  - Weisenhorn, David A.
A1  - Frey, Laura M.
A1  - Venne, Judy van de
A1  - Cerel, Julie
SP  - 161
EP  - 167
VL  - 26
IS  - 1
N2  - Alarming numbers of military veterans end their lives each day which has a profound effect on the military population. This study examines a sample (N = 434) of suicide-exposed (i.e., personally knowing someone who has died by suicide) veterans to determine whether the proportion of individuals who report high impact from suicide exposure and those who have clinically-significant posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms is related to marital status. Using Hill's (Social Casework 49: 139-150, 1958) ABC-X model for conceptualizing the relationships between variables, mean scores for posttraumatic stress disorder were significantly different between groups, and the odds of a married veteran reporting high-impact suicide exposure were 2.19 times lower than the odds of a single veteran reporting high-impact. Likewise, the odds of a veteran with high-impact suicide exposure having clinically-significant posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms were 10.04 times higher than veterans with low-impact suicide exposure. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate that veterans who are married are less likely to be highly-affected by another individual's suicide. Thus, marriage is a protective factor for suicide-exposed veterans.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1062-1024
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0538-y
ID  - ref1
ER  -