“It’s Going to Make the Whole Tower Crooked”: Victimization Trajectories in IPV

Does Childhood Psychological Abuse Contribute to Intimate Partner Violence Victimization? An Investigation Using the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse Interview

“…Despite a recent increase of interest in empirical investigations into the relationship between childhood psychological maltreatment and IPV (Berzenski & Yates, 2010; Crawford & O’Dougherty, 2007; Valdez et al, 2013; Zamir & Lavee, 2014), there remains a need to investigate if and to what degree psychological abuse increases women’s likelihood of adult IPV. This has direct implications on clinical practice and intervention planning.…”

“…Research on the contribution of psychological abuse to IPV is only just beginning (Reyome, 2010). Only a few studies have been conducted, but these have found significant associations between IPV and emotional abuse, in adolescence (Berzenski & Yates, 2010; Crawford & O’Dougherty, 2007; Wekerle et al, 2009) and in adulthood (Cascardi, O’Leary, Lawrence, & Schlee, 1995; Seedat et al, 2005; Valdez, Lim, & Lilly, 2013; Zamir & Lavee, 2014). It is particularly relevant that in some studies, childhood psychological abuse is the strongest predictor of IPV compared with other types of childhood maltreatment, such as physical or sexual abuse (Berzenski & Yates, 2010; Cascardi et al, 1995; Crawford & O’Dougherty, 2007; Seedat et al, 2005; Wekerle et al, 2009).…”

The Association between Child Maltreatment and Adult Revictimization: The Contribution of Early Maladaptive Schemas

“…Given that both early trauma and adult sexual victimization are interpersonal traumas that by definition involve a person other than the victim (i.e., the perpetrator), such factors deserve attention. Limited research supports the notion that interpersonal expectancies and schemas may contribute to revictimization in the form of intimate partner violence (IPV; Valdez, Lim, & Lilly, 2013;Rich, Gidycz, Warkentin, Loh, & Weiland, 2005), and other research suggests that women who experienced multiple interpersonal traumas in their lives more strongly associate interpersonal relationships with harm; however, the extent to which such schemas relate to sexual revictimization is largely unexplored. The current research will examine the association between child maltreatment and sexual revictimization focusing specifically on ways in which an individual's concept of herself and her relationships with others may change as a result of early trauma, and the ways in which these beliefs relate to revictimization.…”

Linking Childhood and Adult Criminality: Using a Life Course Framework to Examine Childhood Abuse and Neglect, Substance Use and Adult Partner Violence

“…Through social learning processes, children learn behaviours both from experiencing the ways in which others treat them, as well as observing how their own parents treat each other [ 13 , 14 , 15 ]. Exposure to interparental violence and resultant modeling may then teach children that violence is a means of resolving partner conflict, causing them to tolerate such behaviour and increase their likelihood of violence perpetration in adulthood [ 15 , 16 , 17 ]. In much of the literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) the theory of intergenerational transmission of violence is used to explain violence, both towards women by their partners, and by abused women towards their own children.…”