Assessing psychological adjustment and cultural reintegration after military service: development and psychometric evaluation of the post-separation Military-Civilian Adjustment and Reintegration Measure (M-CARM)

Table 8 Mean M-CARM Scores and t-test Results for Binary Variables

Reintegration questions and PCL-5	Yes			No			t-test	Effect Size
Reintegration questions and PCL-5	n	M	SD	n	M	SD	p	Cohen’s d
Question 1^a	274	73.13	15.74	294	57.08	14.09	<.001	1.07
Question 2	513	60.10	15.03	143	79.21	14.52	<.001	1.29
Question 3	328	74.17	14.71	328	54.36	12.53	<.001	1.45
Provisional PTSD diagnosis	280	53.44	12.57	376	72.32	15.07	<.001	1.36

Note. Question 1: Have you found it easy to find and retain employment since leaving the military? ^anot applicable to some participants (i.e. compulsory retirement age or medically discharged; n = 568). Question 2: Did you find your transition out of the military difficult? Question 3: Do you think you have reintegrated or adjusted back to civilian life?

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