2000
DOI: 10.1023/a:1005198514704
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Partner Violence, Social Support, and Distress Among Inner‐City African American Women

Abstract: This study examined the role of social support in the partner violence-psychological distress relation in a sample of African American women seeking medical care at a large, urban hospital (n = 138). Results from bivariate correlational analyses revealed that partner violence was related to lower perceived social support and greater psychological distress, and lower social support was related to more distress. Furthermore, findings based on path analysis indicated that low levels of social support helped accou… Show more

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“…A consistent finding in the correlational analyses is that negative social relationships positively relate to helpseeking efforts for many service categories. This adds a useful dimension to earlier findings that low social support is related to increased psychological distress (Thompson et al, 2000) and poor physical functioning in battered women (Nurius et al, 2003). The present findings suggest that negative social interactions may prompt a woman to seek formal services when she does not find adequate support in her social networks.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 58%
“…A consistent finding in the correlational analyses is that negative social relationships positively relate to helpseeking efforts for many service categories. This adds a useful dimension to earlier findings that low social support is related to increased psychological distress (Thompson et al, 2000) and poor physical functioning in battered women (Nurius et al, 2003). The present findings suggest that negative social interactions may prompt a woman to seek formal services when she does not find adequate support in her social networks.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 58%
“…[62][63][64] However, social support was not found to mediate or moderate the effect of the SAVA syndemic factors on depressive symptoms; that is, there was no relationship between social support and the SAVA factors, and the odds for depression among women who experienced IPV or drug use in the past 30 days did not improve even if they had high social support. A conclusion from this finding could be that general social support does not provide enough of a "buffer" against the detrimental impact of experiencing violence or using illicit drugs on women's mental health.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Although IPV cuts across racial and ethnic boundaries, and all women, regardless of race or ethnicity, need financial assistance in times of economic hardships, there may be differences in how women experience the welfare system, cope with IPV, and manifest health effects of IPV based on their race and/or ethnicity (Campbell, Masaki, & Torres, 1997;Lee, Thompson, & Mechanic, 2002;Thompson et al, 2000;Yoshihama, 2002). Thus, while the racially homogeneous sample limits our ability to generalize the results to women of other racial backgrounds, it avoids the problem of aggregating the data from women of different races whose experiences may differ considerably.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%