Social support and deployment stress among the spouses of military and paramilitary personnel

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Page: 1336-1339

Raj Ratan and Radhey Shyam (Department of Psychology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohatk, Haryana)

The spouses of serving personnel of military and paramilitary forces have pivotal role in maintaining mental health and well being of their serving partner and children at home. Deployment of their serving partner affects their mental health too. Social support is axial to moderate the effect of deployment stress among spouses. The objective of the present study is to compare the prevalent deployment stress and social support among 300 female spouses of various groups of military and paramilitary forces. Participants filled out researcher’s self-developed scale of deployment stress and the social support questionnaire (Sarason, Leven, Bashan, & Sarson, 1983) to measure the variable under study. The finding suggested no significant difference for deployment stress and social support in different groups of military and paramilitary forces (F (3,296) = 0.958, F >.05 and (t = .76, p >.05). The study has practical implication in spousal welfare measures and policy making.