Socioecological model of a military family’s health and well-being : inside a Slovenian military family

Vuga Beršnak, Janja (author), Lobe, Bojana (author)

The purpose of this article is to analyze the ecosystem of a military family, focusing on the risk factors that influence their health and well-being on various socioecological levels (individual, micro, meso, and macro). We develop a theoretical model of health outcomes and risk factors and test it empirically using quota sampling of 460 respondents from military families in Slovenia. Thirty-three regression models were calculated to measure the impact of theoretically defined risk factors on the health outcomes of military families. Surprisingly, a long daily commute, one of the most military-specific factors in Slovenian society, is viewed more positively than negatively. Moreover, risk factors related to the family on the micro and individual levels, such as poor financial situation or parental stress, are responsible for the greatest impact on military family health. Meanwhile, spouses report that military work-related stress affects the servicemembers’ overall health and increases the possibility of intimate partner violence.

• Language: English
• Keywords: military-specific risk factors, military families, health outcomes, long-distance daily commuting, parental stress, psychoactive substances misuse, psychological health
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2024
• Number of pages: Str. 224–252
• Numbering: Vol. 50, iss. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-138988-04edd249-8436-d26a-a34e-656fdfdc7ad7
• UDC: 355.3:316.7(497.4)
• ISSN on article: 0095-327X
• DOI: 10.1177/0095327X221115679
• COBISS.SI-ID: 119280643
• Publication date in RUL: 26.08.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Armed forces and society
• Shortened title: Armed forces soc.
• Publisher: SAGE, Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society
• ISSN: 0095-327X
• COBISS.SI-ID: 25015296

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
• Description: A creative commons license that bans commercial use, but the users don’t have to license their derivative works on the same terms.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: vojaško specifični dejavniki tveganja, vojaške družine, Slovenija, vojaško osebje, družina, zdravje

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: J5-1786
• Name: Vojaško specifični dejavniki tveganja za dobrobit in zdravje vojaških družin

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P5-0206
• Name: Obramboslovje