ArticleThe Journal of head trauma rehabilitation
Emotional Suppression and Hypervigilance in Military Caregivers: Relationship to Negative and Positive Affect.
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- Anger and emotion regulation strategies: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
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- Caregiver strain is strongly associated with health and family outcomes in military couples following traumatic brain injury in service members and veterans.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026Article
- The Family Wellness Program: a bench to bedside translation of behavioral and social science research into a clinical program for intimate partners of warfighters following traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in health services · 2025Review
- A dyad approach to understanding relationship satisfaction and health outcomes in military couples following service member and veteran traumatic brain injury.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Unhealthy family functioning is strongly associated with warfighter brain health following traumatic brain injury in United States service members and veterans.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
- Low resilience is associated with worse health-related quality of life in caregivers of service members and veterans with traumatic brain injury: a longitudinal study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2024Article
- Health outcomes before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in caregivers of service members and veterans with traumatic brain injury.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023Article
- The reliability and validity of the TBI-CareQOL system in four diverse caregiver groups.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2023Article
- Reliability and validity data to support the clinical utility of the Traumatic Brain Injury Caregiver Quality of Life (TBI-CareQOL).Rehabilitation psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the relationship of 2 health-related quality-of-life (QOL) item banks (Emotional Suppression and Caregiver Vigilance), developed for caregivers of service members/veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI), to caregivers' positive and negative affect.
settingCommunity.
participantsOne hundred sixty-five caregivers of service members/veterans with TBI.
designRetrospective database analysis. MAIN MEASURES: TBI-CareQOL Emotional Suppression; TBI-CareQOL Caregiver Vigilance; measures of negative (Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System [PROMIS] Depression, PROMIS Anger, TBI-CareQOL Caregiver-Specific Anxiety, National Institutes of Health Toolbox [NIHTB] Perceived Stress, GAD-7) and positive affect (Neuro-QOL Positive Affect and Well-being, NIHTB Self-efficacy, NIHTB General Life Satisfaction, Family Resilience Scale for Veterans, TBI-QOL Resilience).
resultsWhen considered separately, linear regression showed that higher levels of Emotional Suppression and greater Caregiver Vigilance were individually associated with more negative affect and less positive affect. When considered together, the pattern of findings was generally consistent for both Emotional Suppression and Caregiver Vigilance with regard to negative affect and for Emotional Suppression with regard to positive affect. However, when considered together, Caregiver Vigilance was no longer related to positive affect.
conclusionsCaregivers with high emotional suppression and/or vigilance are more likely to show emotional distress and less likely to have positive affect than caregivers with lower levels of emotional suppression and vigilance. A combination of education and individual counseling targeting coping with negative emotions and TBI-related problems may be beneficial.
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