The impact of financial strain and external locus of control on psychological distress among single CAF members with children
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Introduction: Military families are often confronted with unique financial stressors related to the military lifestyle, including relocations, loss of spousal job, or child care expenses. Moreover, the impact of financial stressors may be exacerbated in single-parent military families. Although there is an increasing number of single-parent families in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), research concerning the role of financial stressors in their psychological well-being is limited. Methods: The goal of this study was to examine the role of financial stressors in the psychological well-being of single and married CAF members with and without children ( n = 1,781). Results: Single CAF members with children reported significantly higher financial strain and psychological distress than other CAF members. In addition, hierarchical regression analyses revealed that financial strain and an external locus of control played important roles in psychological distress even when family structure was taken into account. Discussion: Organizational implications, including recommendations related to financial education services aimed at single CAF members with children and the development of programs to promote an internal financial locus of control, are discussed.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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