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Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence, Depressive Symptomatology, and Personality Traits
- Source :
- Journal of Family Violence. 28:369-379
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2013.
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Abstract
- The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and personality disorder symptoms controlling for depressive state. Victims of IPV (n = 176) and non-abused women (n = 193) completed the Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Basic Questionnaire (DAPP-BQ), Index of Spouse Abuse (ISA), and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II). IPV victims scored higher than non-abused women on Intimacy Problems, and scored lower on Rejection traits, after adjustment for depressive symptoms. Severity of the IPV was related to Cognitive Distortion, Suspiciousness, Restricted Expression, and Intimacy Problems, and the length of the IPV was negatively associated with Rejection. The current study suggests only modest differences in personality traits between IPV and non-abused women. The DAPP-BQ traits associated with severity of IPV, in a dose-response manner, would partially reflect the symptoms of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), although this possibility deserves further study.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Sociology and Political Science
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education
Human factors and ergonomics
Poison control
social sciences
behavioral disciplines and activities
Suicide prevention
Clinical Psychology
Spouse
mental disorders
Injury prevention
medicine
population characteristics
Domestic violence
Personality
Big Five personality traits
Psychology
Psychiatry
Law
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Clinical psychology
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Details
- ISSN :
- 15732851 and 08857482
- Volume :
- 28
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Family Violence
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8a885f5af7933d94b9e5b7497763da87