Term of Award
Spring 1994
Document Type and Release Option
Thesis (restricted to Georgia Southern)
Committee Chair
Gary McClure
Committee Member 1
Richard Rogers
Committee Member 2
Janice Steirn
Abstract
This project focuses on the relationship between social support and anxiety and explores the hypothesis that social support serves as a buffer. Various stressors that are inherent to the military lifestyle are examined with an emphasis on the stressors of family separation during deployment. A questionnaire study was conducted to measure the relationship between social support and levels of anxiety for U.S. Navy sailors during deployment. It was predicted that an inverse relationship would exist between social support and anxiety. The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Coping Resources Inventory were administered to 181 men aboard the U.S.S. Nicholson, and a correlational analysis revealed a significant inverse relationship between anxiety and social support as predicted.
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Recommended Citation
Bragg, Phoebe Dellinger, "Social Support as a Buffer for Anxiety During Peacetime Deployment of a U.S. Navy Warship" (1994). Legacy ETDs. 82.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd_legacy/82
