Meaning in Life Following Intimate Partner Psychological Aggression: The Roles of Self-Kindness, Positive Reframing, and Growth

Samios, Christina; Raatjes, Blair; Ash, Jessica A.; Lade, Stephanie L; Langdon, Tamika

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“…Psychological aggression is the most common form of IPV and is an even stronger predictor of PTSD than physical violence. Psychological violence is likely to reduce self-kindness and is thus related to less meaning in life, less positive reframing of stressful events, and result in less growth and maturity in the victim of IPV [17]. Victims of IPV also often lose their internal ego structure [18].…”

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“I’m a Winner, Not a Victim”: The Facilitating Factors of Post-Traumatic Growth among Women Who Have Suffered Intimate Partner Violence

Bryngeirsdottir

Halldórsdóttir

2022

IJERPH

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Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a positive psychological change following trauma. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one such trauma. The aim of this phenomenological study was to explore PTG from the perspective of women who have survived IPV as well as their perceptions of PTG. Twenty-two female IPV survivors aged 23–56 who reached PTG, according to the working definition used, were interviewed. The overriding theme of the study was “I’m a winner, not a victim”, which describes the essence of the women’s experience of PTG. They described their experience as a shift from being suffering victims of IPV to becoming winners who enjoyed PTG. They felt that their positive attitude and personal strengths had helped them to reach PTG as well as to face the fact that they had been in an abusive relationship, thus forgiving and believing in themselves and taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. They sought knowledge about violence, how to process it, and how to respond to triggers. They set boundaries for their perpetrators and were in as little contact with them as possible. They chose the company of positive, supportive, and constructive people and situations where they were not being controlled. It was concluded that, even though suffering IPV is a terrible experience that no one should endure, the participants’ experiences had resulted in PTG that they treasured.

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“I’m a Winner, Not a Victim”: The Facilitating Factors of Post-Traumatic Growth among Women Who Have Suffered Intimate Partner Violence

Bryngeirsdottir

Halldórsdóttir

2022

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“…Based on these aforementioned findings, we assumed that ACEs positively influenced CPTSD symptoms through the mediating effects of self-judgement. Clinically, self-kindness and selfjudgement are important interventions when treating individuals with ACEs (Naismith, Zarate, & Feigenbaum, 2019;Samios et al, 2020) and CPTSD (Karatzias et al, 2019). Empirically, however, the mediating effects of self-kindness and self-judgement on ACEs and CPTSD symptoms have not yet been established.…”

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The relationship between childhood adversities and complex posttraumatic stress symptoms: a multiple mediation model

Guo

Huang

Hall

et al. 2021

European Journal of Psychotraumatology

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Background: There is a growing research literature on complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), yet studies that focused on Chinese populations are still limited. Accumulating evidence showed that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with a higher likelihood of CPTSD symptoms, but potential mediating roles of self-kindness and selfjudgement on the ACEs-CPTSD relationship remain understudied. Objective: The purpose of this study was to first examine the relationship between ACEs and CPTSD among Chinese college students, and then to test the mediating role of self-kindness and self-judgement on the ACEs-CPTSD relationship. Method: The study included 1361 college students for an online survey in May 2020. Demographic variables (e.g. age, gender, having sibling[s] or not, residence, family structure, and subjective socioeconomic status), ACEs, self-compassion (self-kindness and self-judgement subscales), and CPTSD symptoms were assessed. After controlling for demographic variables, a series of structural equation models tested the mediation hypothesis: indirect effects of selfkindness and self-judgement on the relationship between ACEs and CPTSD symptom. Results: ACEs of College students were positively associated with more severe CPTSD symptoms (posttraumatic stress disorder and disturbances in self-organization symptoms). Furthermore, these direct pathways were mediated by decreased self-kindness and increased self-judgement. Conclusions: Findings have substantial theoretical and treatment implications, including the two critical targets (i.e. lowering self-judgement and raising self-kindness) when treating complex PTSD. La relación entre las adversidades en la infancia y los síntomas de estrés postraumático complejo: un modelo de mediación múltipleAntecedentes: existe una creciente literatura de investigación sobre el trastorno de estrés postraumático complejo (TEPT-C), sin embargo, los estudios centrados en la población China aún son limitados. La evidencia acumulada mostró que las experiencias adversas de la infancia (ACEs en sus siglas en inglés) están asociadas con una mayor probabilidad de síntomas de TEPT-C, pero los posibles roles mediadores de la bondad hacia uno mismo y auto-juicio propio en la relación ACE-TEPT-C siguen siendo poco estudiados. Objetivo: El propósito de este estudio fue examinar primero la relación entre ACE y TEPT-C entre estudiantes universitarios chinos, y luego probar el papel mediador de la bondad y el auto-juicio en la relación ACE-TEPT-C. Método: El estudio incluyó a 1361 estudiantes universitarios para una encuesta en línea en mayo del 2020. Variables demográficas (por ejemplo, edad, sexo, tener hermanos o no, residencia, estructura familiar y estatus socioeconómico subjetivo), ACE, autocompasión (subescalas de auto-bondad y auto-juicio), y se evaluaron los síntomas de TEPT-C. Después de controlar las variables demográficas, una serie de modelos de ecuaciones estructurales probaron la hipótesis de la mediación: los efectos indirectos de la bondad personal y el ...

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“…Furthermore, an investigation conducted on survivors of the 2010 eruption of Mount Merapi, in which most of the subjects were female, showed that meaning-in-life was negatively correlated with mental health problems (Noviana & Iwasaki, 2019). Samios et al (2020) investigated meaning-in-life following IPV considering the role of self-kindness, positive reframing, and growth. their results indicated that the more severe experienced psychological violence was correlated with low self-kindness, which in turn was associated with less positive reframing, that was sequentially linked with diminished growth, and was linked with decreased meaning-in-life as well.…”

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Group-based Compassion-focused Therapy on Experiential Avoidance, Meaning-in-life, and Sense of Coherence in Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Daneshvar

Shafiei

Basharpoor

2020

J Interpers Violence

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The current study was carried out to investigate the effects of compassion-focused therapy (CFT) on experiential avoidance, meaning-in-life, and sense of coherence (SoC) in women suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the intimate partner violence (IPV). 42 women suffering from PTSD due to the IPV exposure were randomized to the two groups of experimental and control (21 per group). All participants completed the questionnaires of experiential avoidance, meaning-in-life, and SoC as pre-test measures. The experimental group received eight sessions of CFT, while the controls did not receive any treatment. After that, all subjects responded to the questionnaires of experiential avoidance, meaning-in-life, and SoC as the post-test measures. Data were analyzed using one-way repeated measures MANOVA. Subjects of the experimental group indicated a greater reduction in post-test scores of experiential avoidance, and a significant rise in the level of meaning-in-life and its subscales including the presence of meaning-in-life and search for meaning-in-life when compared to the controls. Nevertheless, there was no change in the level of SoC as a function of CFT. Applying CFT can result in reducing experiential avoidance and raising the meaning of life in women with PTSD due to IPV exposure. CFT is highly recommended to strengthen the well-being of patients with PTSD and reduce the PTSD symptoms.

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Meaning in Life Following Intimate Partner Psychological Aggression: The Roles of Self-Kindness, Positive Reframing, and Growth

Cited by 19 publications

References 38 publications

“I’m a Winner, Not a Victim”: The Facilitating Factors of Post-Traumatic Growth among Women Who Have Suffered Intimate Partner Violence

“I’m a Winner, Not a Victim”: The Facilitating Factors of Post-Traumatic Growth among Women Who Have Suffered Intimate Partner Violence

The relationship between childhood adversities and complex posttraumatic stress symptoms: a multiple mediation model

Group-based Compassion-focused Therapy on Experiential Avoidance, Meaning-in-life, and Sense of Coherence in Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence with PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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