Physical and mental health effects of intimate partner violence for men and women

Coker, Ann L.; Davis, Keith E.; Arias, Ileana; Desai, Sujata; Sanderson, Maureen; Brandt, Heather M.; Smith, Paige Hall

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“…The utilization of formal support services increases with available resources (for example, having transportation access), the severity of the abuse and its association with psychiatric or mental illness, community attitudes towards victims, and previous trauma history [24,29,44,56–60]. In our study, we found that generally a smaller proportion of women consulted mental health practitioners, indicating the presence of barriers in women’s access to services.…”

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Social support factors associated with psychological resilience among women survivors of intimate partner violence in Gauteng, South Africa

Machisa

Christofides

Jewkes

2018

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Background: Women’s experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) increase their risk for mental ill health. However, some women exposed to IPV and adversity are psychologically resilient and function well despite these exposures. Objectives: We conducted a study to investigate the factors that are associated with psychological resilience among abused women, using data collected in a household survey conducted in Gauteng province of South Africa. Methods: Data is from a cross-sectional study. A multi-stage random sampling approach was used to select a sample of 501 women. The World Health Organization (WHO) Multi-Country Study on Women’s Health and Domestic Violence Questionnaire was used to measure lifetime experience of physical and sexual IPV. Only 189 women who had experienced lifetime IPV were included in this secondary analysis. Resilience was measured as scoring below the threshold for the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale and the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire. Other explanatory factors measured included child sexual abuse, non-partner rape, other traumatic life events, social support indicators, binge drinking and socio-demographic variables. Multivariable regression analysis was used to test factors associated with resilience. Results: Forty two percent of women scored below the threshold for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depressive symptoms at the time of the survey and so were categorized as resilient. Social support indicators were associated with increased resilience. Women who perceived that their communities were supportive and they would easily find money in an emergency were more likely to be resilient. Women who binge drank, experienced severe IPV in the past 12 months, received negative reactions to disclosure and utilized medical or psychosocial services were less likely to be resilient. Conclusion: Social support indicators including social connectedness, stronger network ties and perceived supportive communities are key factors in fostering resilience among abused women. Interventions should aim to promote stronger and supportive social networks and increase women’s utilization of formal support services.

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Social support factors associated with psychological resilience among women survivors of intimate partner violence in Gauteng, South Africa

Machisa

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Jewkes

2018

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“…Numerous studies show that relationship violence during childhood and adulthood is associated with poorer mental health in adulthood. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Although it is difficult to establish the temporal order of the association between relationship violence and mental health status, 21 available longitudinal research is generally consistent with the idea that violence experiences may actually lead to greater psychological distress. 12 The effects of relationship violence on mental health are also generally consistent across a wide range of violence measures, including nonspecific violence and victimization, violence during childhood, physical assault, psychological aggression, and sexual coercion.…”

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Relationship Violence and Psychological Distress Among Low-income Urban Women

2007

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In this paper, we examined the association between relationship violence and psychological distress among low-income urban women. Extending prior research, we considered the effects of relationship violence within the context of other chronic stressors that are common in the lives of these women. Using data from the Welfare, Children, and Families project (1999), a probability sample of 2,402 low-income women with children living in low-income neighborhoods in Boston, Chicago, and San Antonio, we predicted psychological distress with multiple measures of relationship violence, a wide range of sociodemographic variables, and several chronic stressors. Our results show that relationship violence is associated with higher levels of economic hardship, neighborhood disorder, and household disrepair. We also find that relationship violence is associated with higher levels of psychological distress, net of these other chronic stressors. Finally, we observe that the effects of relationship violence do not vary according to the chronic stressors under study. Because the adverse effects of relationship violence are similar for women despite other adverse circumstances, interventions and treatment efforts focused exclusively on relationship violence may make a unique contribution to the psychological well-being of low-income urban women.

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“…Straight, Harper, and Arias (2003) found psychological aggression to be associated with poorer self-reported general and functional health when controlling for the effects of physical aggression among a sample of dating female college students. In two large-scale epidemiological studies, Coker and her colleagues (Coker et al, 2000(Coker et al, , 2002 have found elevated health symptoms and conditions among women experiencing psychological aggression. In both studies, similar patterns of health problems were found among those experiencing physical aggression-sexual coercion and those experiencing psychological aggression only.…”

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Posttraumatic stress disorder and physical health symptoms among women seeking help for relationship aggression.

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Journal of Family Psychology

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This study examined associations between intimate partner aggression and physical health symptoms among a sample of help-seeking women experiencing relationship aggression (N = 388). Using a structural equation modeling framework, the authors found posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms to fully mediate the associations of both physical and psychological aggression with physical health symptoms. The influence of PTSD symptoms on physical health symptoms was partially mediated by anger/irritability. Results were consistent with studies from other trauma groups suggesting that PTSD is pivotal with respect to explaining the effects of trauma on health.

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Physical and mental health effects of intimate partner violence for men and women

Cited by 1,865 publications

References 52 publications

Social support factors associated with psychological resilience among women survivors of intimate partner violence in Gauteng, South Africa

Social support factors associated with psychological resilience among women survivors of intimate partner violence in Gauteng, South Africa

Relationship Violence and Psychological Distress Among Low-income Urban Women

Posttraumatic stress disorder and physical health symptoms among women seeking help for relationship aggression.

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