Intimate Partner Victimization Among College Students With and Without Disabilities

Scherer, Heidi L.; Snyder, Jamie A.; Fisher, Bonnie S.

doi:10.1177/0886260514555126

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“…9 10 The majority of existing research on the association between disability and IPV comes from the Global North, where evidence, while limited, consistently shows that women with disabilities are at greater risk of IPV than either women without disabilities or men with disabilities. [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] A 2012 systematic review and meta-analysis of past 12 months' experience of violence among female and male adults with disabilities identified only five studies that looked at IPV. 11 All were from the USA or Canada and three included only data on mental illness in non-representative samples, from which the authors estimated a pooled OR of 1.78 (95% CI 1.42 to 2.22) for recent IPV among 574 adults with mental illness.…”

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Intimate partner violence among women with and without disabilities: a pooled analysis of baseline data from seven violence-prevention programmes

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IntroductionIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health and human rights violation which impacts approximately one in three women worldwide. Some existing evidence suggests that women with disabilities are at higher risk of IPV, but is largely limited in geographical scope to the Global North, and comparison across settings has been hampered by inconsistent measurement of both IPV and disability.MethodsPooled analysis of baseline data from 8549 adult women participating in seven IPV prevention studies in five countries across Africa and Asia that used collaborative, comparative measurement strategies to assess both disability and IPV.ResultsAfter adjusting for age, women with disabilities were more likely to experience past 12-month physical IPV (adjusted OR (aOR)=1.79; 95% CI 1.49 to 2.17), sexual IPV (aOR=1.98; 95% CI 1.36 to 2.89), emotional IPV (aOR=1.84; 95% CI 1.49 to 2.27) and economic IPV (aOR=1.66; 95% CI 1.45 to 1.89), with an overall association between disability and past 12-month physical/sexual IPV of aOR=1.93 (95% CI 1.52 to 2.46). Compared to women without disability, women with moderate and severe disability showed a trend of increasing risk of IPV in the past 12 months for each of physical, sexual, emotional and economic IPV. Overall, both women with moderate disability (aOR=1.86, 95% CI 1.57 to 2.21) and women with severe disability (aOR=2.63; 95% CI 1.95 to 3.55) were significantly more likely to experience any form of IPV when compared with women without disability.ConclusionWomen with disabilities are at increased risk of past-year IPV compared to women without disabilities across a range of settings in the Global South, and the risk of IPV increases with increasing severity of disability. IPV prevention and response efforts in these settings must find ways to include and address the needs of women with disabilities, including increased outreach and improved accessibility of programmes.

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Intimate partner violence among women with and without disabilities: a pooled analysis of baseline data from seven violence-prevention programmes

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“…Previous studies have found rates of cyber-bullying among young regular Internet users (between 10 and 17 years old) that range from 4 to 72 % [ 9 , 10 ], and lower rates among college population compared to adolescent samples ranging from 9 to 20 % [ 11 – 14 ]. Cyber-bullying and cyber-teasing are known to cause higher level of depression disorders in victims that traditional ways of bullying among adolescents [ 15 ].…”

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Prevalence and patterns of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing among college population in Spain

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BackgroundTraditional bullying victimization and the growing number of cyber-teasing victims during the last decade is a major public health concern. The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between students’ experiences of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing and the sociodemographic characteristics of a sample composed of college students in Spain.MethodsIn the fall of 2014, 543 sixth-grade students from southeast Spain completed an anonymous survey on their experience of both kinds of to ascertain any relationship with sociodemographic characteristics, including gender, nationality, economic problems, family conflicts and alcohol and cannabis use.ResultsA total of 62.2 % of the students reported to having suffered traditional bullying victimization and 52.7 % reported that they had been subject to cyber-teasing. 40.7 % of participants had been victims of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing in the past 12 months. Most (65.7 %) of the victims were at the same time cyber-teasing victims; 77.6 % of cyber-teasing victims were also victimized in a different manner. Traditional bullying victimization was higher among boys than among girls, while female students were more likely to have been subjected to cyber-teasing than male students. The characteristics that most heavily influenced suffering traditional bullying victimization were economic problems, family conflicts and cannabis use.ConclusionsOur findings confirm overlapping results in the risk factors that influence suffering both traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing: there was a strong influence of certain sociodemographic and individual characteristics of the college population, suggesting that specific policies are necessary to improve college students’ environment in Spain.

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“…A number of studies show that violence in the lives of people with disabilities usually does not end in childhood but rather continues throughout the life span with intimate partner violence (IPV) being a very frequent phenomenon. Women with disabilities (physical and intellectual) are more likely to be abused by their partners than women without disabilities, and for longer periods of time ( Nosek et al, 2001 ; Smith and Strauser, 2008 ; Hughes et al, 2011 ; Scherer et al, 2014 ). In addition to experiencing subtle forms of abuse that exploit aspects of disability, such as withholding medication or denying needed supports ( Lund, 2011 ), they are also more often victims of severe forms of physical partner violence, including being kicked or punched ( Brownridge, 2006 ).…”

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Child abuse predicts adult PTSD symptoms among individuals diagnosed with intellectual disabilities

Catani

Sossalla

2015

Front. Psychol.

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Prior research has shown that people with intellectual disabilities (ID) are more likely to experience child abuse as well as other forms of traumatic or negative events later in life compared to the general population. Little is known however, about the association of these experiences with adult mental health in intellectually disabled individuals. The present study aimed to assess whether child abuse in families and institutions as well as other types of adverse life events, were associated with current posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms in individuals with ID. We conducted clinical interviews which included standardized self-report measures for childhood abuse, PTSD, and depression in an unselected sample of 56 persons with a medical diagnosis of ID who were attending a specialized welfare center. The frequency of traumatic experiences was very high, with physical and emotional child abuse being the most common trauma types. 87% of the persons reported at least one aversive experience on the family violence spectrum, and 50% of the sample reported a violent physical attack later in adulthood. 25% were diagnosed with PTSD and almost 27% had a critical score on the depression scale. Physical and emotional child abuse was positively correlated with the amount of institutional violence and the number of general traumatic events, whereas childhood sexual abuse was related to the experience of intimate partner violence in adult life. A linear regression model revealed child abuse in the family to be the only significant independent predictor of PTSD symptom severity. The current findings underscore the central role of child maltreatment in the increased risk of further victimization and in the development of mental health problems in adulthood in intellectually disabled individuals. Our data have important clinical implications and demonstrate the need for targeted prevention and intervention programs that are tailored to the specific needs of children and adults with intellectual disability.

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Intimate Partner Victimization Among College Students With and Without Disabilities

Cited by 55 publications

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Intimate partner violence among women with and without disabilities: a pooled analysis of baseline data from seven violence-prevention programmes

Intimate partner violence among women with and without disabilities: a pooled analysis of baseline data from seven violence-prevention programmes

Prevalence and patterns of traditional bullying victimization and cyber-teasing among college population in Spain

Child abuse predicts adult PTSD symptoms among individuals diagnosed with intellectual disabilities

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