Parental perceptions of social and emotional well‐being of young children from Australian military families.
Introduction: Many Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Veteran families are affected by the stressors of Defence family life, including frequent and prolonged parental deployments, and frequent relocations. Objective: To address a gap in information about Defence and Veteran (hereafter Defence) paren...
| Published in: | Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 1090 - 1103 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=174325648&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 174325648 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10385282 FQO jtl: Australian Journal of Rural Health issn: 10385282 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Dec2023 vid: 31 iid: 6 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 174325648 170381489 174325648 174325648 10.1111/ajr.13033 174325648 ppf: 1090 ppct: 13 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Parental perceptions of social and emotional well‐being of young children from Australian military families. aug: au: Rogers, Marg Johnson, Amy Coffey, Yumiko Fielding, Jill Harrington, Ingrid Bhullar, Navjot affil: School of Education, University of New England, Armidale New South Wales,, Australia sug: subj: Parental Attitudes Psychological Well-Being In Infancy and Childhood Military Family Military Deployment Psychosocial Factors Relocation Parents Psychosocial Factors Life Experiences Human Australia Funding Source Confidence Support, Social Coping Emotions Qualitative Studies Rural Areas Mental Health Parenting Child, Preschool Child Adolescence Young Adult Adult Middle Age Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Life Style Changes Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Child: 6-12 years Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years ab: Introduction: Many Australian Defence Force (ADF) and Veteran families are affected by the stressors of Defence family life, including frequent and prolonged parental deployments, and frequent relocations. Objective: To address a gap in information about Defence and Veteran (hereafter Defence) parents' knowledge, confidence and resources to support their young children's well‐being and build their resilience. Design: This study used a mixed methods design to explore Defence parent's perceptions of their young children's (aged 2–8 years) social and emotional well‐being and understanding of their children's responses to unique stressors as well as their confidence in providing support. Data from 41 parents were available. Findings: Overall, parents reported positive well‐being evaluation of their children. However, just over a third of parents also reported that their children rarely cope well on two indicators combined (adapting to new situations and sharing negative emotions with others). Significantly, more than half of the parents (61%) were only partially confident in their ability to assist their children to cope with unique stressors in military families. Qualitative data provided further insights into children's struggle with relocations and parental absence and the challenges parents face in supporting them. Parents reported having limited access to effective age‐ and culturally appropriate resources to support their young children. Discussion: In a first‐of‐its kind study, we found that Australian Defence parents reported their young children were coping on most of the key well‐being indicators. However, awareness of currently available supports for children remains a barrier as well as access to contextualised, age‐ and culturally appropriate resources are lacking. Conclusion: There is a need for access to free, quality, online, research‐based Australian resources to support young children from Defence families, especially for those living in regional and rural locations and are less likely to have access to mental health and other specialist supports. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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