Long-Term Consequences of Intimate Partner Abuse on Physical Health, Emotional Well-Being, and Problem Behaviors

Simmons, Sara; Knight, Kelly E.; Menard, Scott

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“…For example, Blake et al (2007) found that pregnancy happiness was more strongly correlated with the use of tobacco, drugs, and alcohol during pregnancy than pregnancy intentions were (see also Sable and Libbus 2000; Santelli et al 2009). This fits with other research showing how emotions shape various health behaviors (Simmons, Knight, and Menard 2018; Steptoe, Deaton, and Stone 2015). Therefore, pregnancy happiness may play a role in the causal chain linking health outcomes to their more distal social and contextual causes.…”

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Racial Disparities in Emotional Well-Being during Pregnancy

Hartnett

Brantley

2020

J Health Soc Behav

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In light of persistent racial disparities in maternal and child health, it is important to understand the dynamics shaping outcomes for black mothers. We examine racial patterns in women’s emotional well-being regarding pregnancy (i.e., women’s reported happiness to be pregnant), which has been shown to have health consequences. Using the 2002–2017 National Survey of Family Growth (N = 6,163 pregnancies ending in birth), we find that black women are less happy about their pregnancies than white women both for intended and mistimed pregnancies. The happiness gap in intended pregnancies is partially attributable to differences in economic strain and partner support. In addition, child gender shapes happiness differently by race: Black women who previously had sons are unhappier about current intended pregnancies than those who did not (with no difference for white women). We argue there are pregnancy- and parenthood-related stressors that disproportionately impact black women, with potential implications for mothers and children.

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Racial Disparities in Emotional Well-Being during Pregnancy

Hartnett

Brantley

2020

J Health Soc Behav

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“…Due to this, research on aggression has increased considerably in recent years, studying its characteristics, prevalence, and consequences (Lee, 2016). The negative consequences of aggressive behavior are suffered by both the victims, including such problems as anxiety, depressive symptoms, relationship stability, or even psychiatric disorders (Crick & Bigbee, 1998;Cullerton-Sen et al, 2008;O'Moore & Kirkham, 2001;Simmons et al, 2018) and by the aggressors, who experience personal relationship problems or exhibit antisocial behaviors (Moffitt, 2006;Ostrov & Godleski, 2009).…”

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Personal Risk and Protective Factors Involved in Aggressive Behavior

Gómez‐Leal

Megías‐Robles

Gutiérrez‐Cobo

et al. 2020

J Interpers Violence

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The study of aggression plays a prominent role in psychology and public health, because of the important adverse consequences of such behavior for victims, aggressors, and society in general. The General Aggression Model (GAM) provides a general conceptual framework for understanding the aggressive as a result of three stages: (a) inputs: personal and situational factors; (b) present internal states: affect, cognition, and arousal; and (c) outcomes: decision processes with a (non)aggressive result. The main objective of this research was to study the personal protective and risk factors most strongly associated with aggressive behavior acting at the first stage of the GAM model. A total of 282 young adult participants took part in this study. Participants were assessed for aggression levels and a set of the most relevant variables that have been associated with aggressive behavior in the previous literature. Stepwise multiple regression analysis revealed that levels of aggression were mainly associated (73.2% of the explained variance) with the following protective factors: the ability to manage emotions as a component of emotional intelligence (EI), and perspective-taking and personal distress as components of empathy, and with the following risk factors: negative and positive urgency as a component of impulsivity, fantasy as a component of empathy, negative affect, and expressive suppression of emotions. These findings provide a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying aggressive behavior and provide greater empirical value to the current theoretical models. In addition, this research can help to inform the design of more successful programs for the prevention, control, and treatment of aggressive behavior. Limitations and future lines of research are discussed.

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“…These include an increased risk of depression, anxiety, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicide (Bonomi et al, 2009; Devries, Mak, Bacchus, et al, 2013); back pain, abdominal or pelvic pain (Campbell, 2002), and poor sexual and reproductive health including dyspareunia, vaginal bleeding, unintended pregnancy, pregnancy termination, and irregular use of contraception (Bauleni et al, 2018; Coker, 2007; Hall et al, 2014; Maxwell et al, 2015). There is some evidence that IPV may be associated with greater body mass index (BMI), although findings have been inconsistent (Bosch et al, 2015; Mason et al, 2017; Simmons et al, 2018). Associations have also been reported between IPV and body shame and objectification (Gervais & Davidson, 2013) as well as altered eating behaviors (Bundock et al, 2013; Wong & Chang, 2016).…”

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Physical and Emotional Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Health in the First Year After Childbirth: An Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study

FitzPatrick

Brown

Hegarty

et al. 2020

J Interpers Violence

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) can comprise physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and is a widespread public health concern. Despite increasing recognition that women experience different types of IPV, the majority of research has focused on physical IPV. The present study aims to examine associations between different types of IPV (physical, emotional, physical, and emotional) and women’s mental, physical, and sexual health by analyzing longitudinal data from a prospective pregnancy cohort of 1,507 first-time mothers in Melbourne, Australia. Questionnaires included validated measures of physical and mental health (Short Form Health Survey, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale) and IPV (Composite Abuse Scale). Emotional IPV alone was the most commonly reported type of IPV ( n = 128, 9.5%), followed by both physical and emotional IPV ( n = 76, 5.7%), and then physical IPV alone ( n = 30, 2.2%). Women reporting emotional IPV or physical and emotional IPV had increased odds of poor health compared with women reporting no IPV. Experience of physical and emotional IPV was most strongly associated with mental health issues, including depressive symptoms (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 4.6, 95% confidence interval [CI] = [2.9, 7.1]) and self-reported anxiety (adjusted OR 2.9, 95% CI = [1.9, 4.4]). Experience of emotional IPV alone was associated with poor mental health as well as physical factors, including poor general physical health (adjusted OR 1.9, 95% CI = [1.2, 3.1]), and pain during sex (adjusted OR 1.8, 95% CI = [1.2, 2.7]). Increased odds of poor body image were also observed for women reporting emotional IPV alone and physical and emotional IPV. These findings highlight the need for greater awareness of the diversity in women’s experiences of IPV among health care providers. This includes understanding the prevalence of emotional IPV among new mothers, and the range of health problems that are more common for women experiencing IPV.

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Long-Term Consequences of Intimate Partner Abuse on Physical Health, Emotional Well-Being, and Problem Behaviors

Cited by 25 publications

References 80 publications

Racial Disparities in Emotional Well-Being during Pregnancy

Racial Disparities in Emotional Well-Being during Pregnancy

Personal Risk and Protective Factors Involved in Aggressive Behavior

Physical and Emotional Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Health in the First Year After Childbirth: An Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study

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