Understanding infidelity in military families

Abstract

The military has five domains that they describe as personal readiness: social, emotional, physical, family preparedness, and spiritual. These five domains are what the military believe to be important for a service member to be "fit for duty." This study plans to analyze secondary data with a divorced military-affiliated population and compare the differences in personal readiness between service members who described infidelity as a cause of their divorce and those who have not. The measures used in this study replicate personal readiness and were used as variables within the study to compare the two groups using independent t-test samples. Additionally independent samples t-tests were run to see the if post-traumatic stress, ACEs, and combat trauma were present between to the two groups and how prevalent. While all were present within the sample, this study provides discussion on the results and future directions researchers should take.