The survey card (Additional file 1) devised was in 5 parts, demographic (age, sex, marital status, age of living spouse), difficulties with activities of daily life (disability: questions 1-12), health problems (ill-health: Q13), resting tremor, as a coarse screen for Parkinson's disease (Q14) and help received and needed (Q15 and 16).
In many cases, the IENs could not afford to bring along immediate family members, yet if they were fortunate to do this, many of their spouses experienced difficulty securing employment in their area of specialty.
The reasons the writers cite for keeping the pension benefit — that service members typically cannot build home equity, have trouble finding work for their spouses and have difficulty finding civilian employment — are equally good reasons for the Pentagon to offer better assistance to all separating soldiers.
The five variables that loaded on Factor 8 include having difficulties with a spouse or partner, experiencing stress from taking care of family members, feeling as if there were no one to turn to, having little or no sexual desire/pleasure, and experiencing financial problems.
Items were from the PHQ and included being bothered by difficulties with a spouse or partner (factor loading of 0.58), stress of taking care of family members (0.52), having no one to turn to (0.46), little or no sexual desire or pleasure (0.44), and financial problems or worries (0.43).
Satirical piece about narrator and her spouse, who have had difficulty in their relationship.
By Veronica Geng The New Yorker, April 7 , 1986P. 33 Satirical piece about narrator and her spouse, who have had difficulty in their relationship.
The military benefit system gives active duty soldiers extra combat pay, provides housing allowances and exempts them from certain taxes, but financial experts say active duty military families are straining under multiple deployments, frequent relocations and the difficulty spouses have in getting -- and keeping jobs -- in new cities.
Still, Dr. Christ said that one of the most interesting findings of the study was that some parents who had serious psychological difficulties before a spouse died still managed to pull themselves together and prove very effective in parenting their children after the death.
"If I'm having some relationship difficulties with my spouse, that dream is also a really great metaphor for wanting to take the relationship somewhere and you can't, you're stuck," Zadra says.
At ages 36, 43, and 53 survey members reported whether they had relationship difficulties with their spouse, children, or friends.
