The interpersonal context of depression and violent behavior: A social psychological interpretation

Berg, Mark T.; Rogers, Ethan M.; Liu, Weiwei; Mumford, Elizabeth A.; Taylor, Bruce

doi:10.1002/ab.21832

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“…This phenomenon would be relevant for both women and men (non-significant moderated mediation). These major findings are a reminder that depression can increase the risk of violence and involvement in verbal conflicts [ 79 ]. They also highlight that depression and anxiety for both men and women are real risk factors for physical and psychological violence during the confinement.…”

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confidence: 99%

Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health during Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Glowacz

Dziewa

Schmits

2022

IJERPH

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Background: This study took place in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The present research assesses the association between lockdown conditions (such as time spent at home, living environment, proximity to contamination and social contacts), mental health (including intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety and depression) and intimate partner violence within the community. This study evaluates the indirect effect of anxiety and depression on the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and intimate partner violence (physical assault and psychological aggression). Methods: 1532 adults (80.8% of women, Mage = 35.34) were recruited from the Belgian general population through an online self-report questionnaire completed during the lockdown (from April 17 to 1 May 2020). Results: The results demonstrate that the prevalence of physical assault (including both perpetration and victimization) was significantly higher in men, whereas the prevalence of psychological aggression was significantly higher in women. Men reported significantly more violence during lockdown. Women, on the other hand, were more anxious and more intolerant of uncertainty. No difference between men and women was found for depression. Anxiety and depression significantly mediated the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and physical assault and psychological aggression. Sex did not moderate the mediation. Conclusion: Clinical implications for public health policy are highlighted.

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confidence: 99%

Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health during Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Glowacz

Dziewa

Schmits

2022

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“…Considerable past research shows that children with a hostile attribution bias, or the tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in ambiguous provocation situations, are more likely to exhibit externalizing behaviors (Dodge, 2006). Alternatively, making negative attributions and inferences (self, consequences) can relate to aggression and externalizing problems within the context of interpersonal disputes (Berg, Rogers, Liu, Mumford, & Taylor, 2019). Individuals who experience frequent, verbal quarrels, such as that tapped by the externalizing-specific dimension, might attribute these interpersonal problems to stable, global causes (“I get into fights all the time”), believe their self is flawed (“There is something wrong with me”), and infer negative consequences for the future (“I will never have healthy relationships”).…”

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confidence: 99%

The breadth and potency of transdiagnostic cognitive risks for psychopathology in youth.

Schweizer¹,

Snyder²,

Young³

et al. 2020

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Objective: Multiple cognitive risks from different theoretical paradigms (dysfunctional attitudes, negative inferential style, self-criticism, dependency, brooding) predict depression, but may be transdiagnostic vulnerabilities for multiple psychopathologies. Risk factors can be identified as broadly transdiagnostic and relatively specific to psychopathological outcomes by organizing the common and specific aspects of each respective construct using latent bifactor models, and by examining links between dimensions of risk and psychopathology. This study evaluated (a) whether a bifactor model of cognitive vulnerabilities, including a general cognitive risk dimension (c factor) and several specific dimensions replicated in early adolescents (M age ϭ 13.50 years) and extended to younger and older youth, and (b) how the general and specific cognitive risk dimensions related to the general psychopathology (p factor) and internalizingand externalizing-specific dimensions. Method: Community youth (N ϭ 571; 55% female) reported on cognitive risks; youth and a caregiver reported on psychopathologies (depression, anxiety, aggression, conduct, attention problems). Results: The cognitive risk bifactor model showed good fit and slight advantages over a correlated factors model. The bifactor model exhibited invariance across development and captured key associations that were identified when each individual cognitive risk was related to the bifactor model of psychopathology. The c factor strongly related to internalizing-specific, and moderately to the p factor and externalizing-specific dimensions. Specific cognitive risk dimensions (brooding, negative inferential style, dependency) related to all psychopathology dimensions. Conclusion: A general cognitive vulnerability (c factor) transdiagnostically associates with a breadth of psychopathologies and most potently to internalizing-specific among youth. What is the public health significance of this article?A common cognitive vulnerability representing general maladaptive thinking patterns (e.g., overly negative, self-focused beliefs) related to a breadth of mental health problems (depression, anxiety, aggression, conduct, attention issues), and particularly to symptoms that are specific to depression and anxiety among youth. This common cognitive vulnerability may be a transdiagnostic risk that informs transdiagnostic interventions.

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“…This complexity—associations with frequency but not prevalence—was also apparent for respondent emotional well-being and feelings of loneliness over the study period. Although depression and loneliness can in some instances lead to aggressive behavior (Berg et al, 2019; Cacioppo et al, 2015), in this study, these characteristics were associated with reduced frequency of aggression. The current findings are consistent with prior research linking depression to less engagement in maintaining relationships (Fowler & Gasiorek, 2017) and aggressive behavior (Capaldi et al, 2012), similar to the self-isolation associated with loneliness (Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2010).…”

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confidence: 44%

Daily Reports of Aggressive Behaviors in Interpersonal Conflicts

Mumford

Taylor

Borowiecki

et al. 2021

J Interpers Violence

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Interpersonal conflicts are inevitable, but the probability that conflicts involve aggressive behavior varies. Prior research that has tended to focus on victimization in intimate partnerships reported through retrospective designs. Addressing these limitations, the current study examines daily reports of behaving aggressively in any conflict across relationships in a sample of 512 young adults drawn from the nationally representative iCOR cohort. Respondent attitudes and affective measures were collected at the end of the daily data collection period. Regression methods were applied to examine the probability and frequency of aggression, investigating early and recent exposure to adversities, attitudes, self-control, affect and emotional states, and alcohol use behavior. Recent adversities and the propensity to endorse a defensive honor code attitude, consistent with theory and retrospective studies of aggression, predicted both prevalence and frequency of aggressive behavior. The associations of childhood maltreatment and self-control with the prevalence of behaving aggressively were as expected, but these constructs were significantly associated with the frequency of aggression with unexpected, inverse directionality. Moreover, respondents’ affect and other emotional states were only associated with the frequency, not the prevalence, of aggressive behavior. Overall, this daily data collection constructively distinguished risk and protective factors for behaving aggressively more often. Further research is needed to disentangle the extent to which affective states drive or is a consequence of frequent aggressive behavior.

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The interpersonal context of depression and violent behavior: A social psychological interpretation

Cited by 12 publications

References 72 publications

Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health during Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health during Lockdown of the COVID-19 Pandemic

The breadth and potency of transdiagnostic cognitive risks for psychopathology in youth.

Daily Reports of Aggressive Behaviors in Interpersonal Conflicts

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