Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence, Depressive Symptomatology, and Personality Traits

Torres, Anna; García-Esteve, Lluïsa; Navarro, Purificación; Tarragona, Maria Jesús; Imaz, M.L.; Ascaso, Carlos; Gelabert, Estel; Plaza, A.; Subirà, Susana; Valdés, Manuel; Martín‐Santos, Rocío

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“…There is no personality pattern that causes someone to become a victim. The severity of the abuse was a predictor for intimacy problems (tendency to manifest difficulties, fear and evasion, and difficulties with sexual behavior), cognitive distortion, and restricted expression personality traits (Torres et al, 2013). However, abuse during childhood was not associated with personality traits (Torres et al, 2013).…”

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“…The severity of the abuse was a predictor for intimacy problems (tendency to manifest difficulties, fear and evasion, and difficulties with sexual behavior), cognitive distortion, and restricted expression personality traits (Torres et al, 2013). However, abuse during childhood was not associated with personality traits (Torres et al, 2013). Women who have experienced some type of violence by their partners exhibited higher scores on schizoid, avoidant, and self-destructive personality scales, as well as on the three pathological personality scales (schizotypal, borderline, and paranoid) (Pico-Alfonso et al, 2008).…”

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Personality characteristics of victims of intimate partner violence: A systematic review

Pereira

Azeredo

Moreira

et al. 2020

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is global public health issue and refers to the violence committed by a partner in the context of an intimate relationship, regardless of whether or not it is legally recognized. This review aims to analyze the personality characteristics present in victims of IPV, addressing the causes and consequences of the abusive relationship. Studies focusing on female victims were obtained through multiple databases, following the Cochrane Collaboration procedures. Of the 87 documents collected, 31 were retained for further analysis and considered eligible for inclusion, with ten studies from manual search being included. The objectives, methodological aspects (sample/instruments), and main conclusions were extracted from each study. The results suggest that women tend to become victims when they experience violence during childhood, when they are economically dependent, lack social support, and fear for their lives. The consequences consist of physical and psychological sequelae that remain throughout life. There are personality traits that make the victim susceptible to remaining in an abusive relationship. Women who have experienced IPV obtained higher scores in schizoid, avoidant, self-destructive, schizotypal, borderline, and paranoid personality scales. Therefore, female victims exhibit characteristics such as low personal self-esteem, family and social isolation, dependency (economic and emotional), insecurity, inferiority, submissiveness, and pacification. This review is particularly useful for clinical practice and intervention with victims of IPV, by bringing to light specific personality traits, cognitive schemas and/or possible diagnoses that are most common among these victims and make them more vulnerable to remaining in abusive relationships.

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Section: Personality Traits That Are Most Common In Victims Of Ipvmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Personality Traits That Are Most Common In Victims Of Ipvmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personality characteristics of victims of intimate partner violence: A systematic review

Pereira

Azeredo

Moreira

et al. 2020

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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“…Changes in structure of personality women victims of domestic violence occur as do changes of personalities in other traumatized people. There are several studies that suggest that chronic trauma can lead to the change of psychological personality traits such as increased aggression, depression, distrust, alienation, tendency to withdrawal and isolation, impaired self-protection, and poor social integration ( 23 , 24 ). The psychological consequences of violence may include permanent modification of the personality and occurrence of maladapted personality traits such as hostility, emotional dependence, lack of trust that may affect the person’s functioning.…”

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Emotional Profile of Women Victims of Domestic Violence

2017

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Introduction:Research indicates that women victims of domestic violence show significant cognitive changes, emotional numbing, and avoidance of interpersonal relationships.Aim:The aim of this research was to analyze emotional profile of women victims of domestic violence, and to determine the relationship between dimensions of emotions and frequency of women exposure to domestic violence.Methods:The research was conducted on the sample of 169 women, 111 were victims of domestic violence and 58 were women who did not experience domestic violence. Plutchik’s Emotions Profile Index (EPI) was used for measuring of the emotion profile, and the Modified Inventory of Domestic Violence for measuring experiences of different types of violence. Basic socio-demographic data were also collected.Results:Significant differences between women victims of domestic violence and women who did not experience domestic violence were found in a few dimensions of emotional profile. Women victims of domestic violence had higher results in the dimensions of deprivation/depression and aggression/destruction, while women who did not experience domestic violence had higher results in dimensions of reproduction and incorporation. Aggression was in significant negative correlation with reproduction, incorporation and self protection, whereas it was significant positive correlation with deprivation and opposition. There were significant and positive correlation between the dimensions of aggression and deprivation and frequency of all three forms of domestic violence and age of women.Conclusion:According to results obtained in this research, it can be concluded that women victims of domestic violence have significantly more intensive negative emotional dimensions in comparison to women who were not abused. Women victims of domestic violence with higher frequency of abuse describe themselves as more sad, apathetic, lonely, angry, quarrelsome and less sociable. Prominence of negative emotions, deprivation and aggression, can be factor of risk for mental health disorders and for re-victimisation of women victims of domestic violence.

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“…IPV is a distinctive traumatic stressor that occurs periodically over an extended period of time, which might result in specific factor structure of PTSD symptoms and, ultimately, require different intervention strategies. As previously noted, it is possible that symptomatology found among IPV survivors is associated with complex rather than classical PTSD (Torres et al, 2013), yet researchers have not extensively assessed the nature of PTSD symptom clusters in the context of IPV or examined whether IPV is more likely to be linked to simple or complex PTSD. Four-factor model (King et al, 1998) Four-factor model (Simms et al, 2002) Five-factor model B1.…”

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Reliability and validity of the Arabic PTSD Checklist Civilian Version (PCL‐C) in women survivors of intimate partner violence

Alhalal

Ford‐Gilboe

Wong

et al. 2017

Research in Nursing & Health

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Although intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors are at high risk for developing posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), PTSD has been considered a disorder specific to Western culture. There is a lack of reliable and valid measures of PTSD symptomology available in the Arab world, and there is still no clear evidence about the underlying factor structure of PTSD symptomology in the context of IPV. Thus, in the present study we investigated the construct validity (factor structure), internal consistency, and concurrent validity of a translated version of the PTSD Checklist Civilian Version (PCL-C) in a sample of 299 Saudi women who had experienced IPV. Four competing models (DSM-IV, Emotional Numbing, Dysphoria, and Dysphoric Arousal) were specified and estimated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The five-factor Dysphoric Arousal model provided superior fit with the data compared to the alternative models, supporting construct validity of the Arabic PCL-C. The factor loadings for the five-factor Dysphoric Arousal model ranged from .31 to .83. A relatively high correlation between the Arabic PCL-C and Arabic Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression (CES-D) Scale (r = .78, p < .05) provided evidence of concurrent validity. The total scale also demonstrated internal consistency reliability (α = .89). Overall, the study supports the Dysphoric Arousal model in representing PTSD symptoms among IPV survivors, the reliability and validity of the Arabic version of PCL-C, and the cross-cultural applicability of PTSD symptoms.

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Relationship Between Intimate Partner Violence, Depressive Symptomatology, and Personality Traits

Cited by 19 publications

References 45 publications

Personality characteristics of victims of intimate partner violence: A systematic review

Personality characteristics of victims of intimate partner violence: A systematic review

Emotional Profile of Women Victims of Domestic Violence

Reliability and validity of the Arabic PTSD Checklist Civilian Version (PCL‐C) in women survivors of intimate partner violence

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