“…Epidemiologic data indicate that women tend to experience a higher incidence of lifetime IPV and revictimization than men (Lilly & Valdez, ; Tang & Freyd, ), gender differences that have been found consistently across varying socioeconomic strata, geographic locations, and cultures (Tang & Freyd, ). Recurrent experiences of IPV may be one reason among many why women have twice the rate of PTSD as men (Iverson et al., , Kessler, Sonnega, Bromet, Hughes, & Nelson, ; Kessler et al., ), exhibit PTSD symptoms for four times as long as men, report significantly poorer quality of life, and develop more comorbid psychiatric disorders (Breslau et al., ; Holbrook, Hoyt, Stein, & Sieber, ; Institute of Medicine, ; Seedat, Stein, & Carey, ).…”