The impact of current and past interpersonal violence on women's mental health

Relationship Violence and Psychological Distress Among Low-income Urban Women

“…12,48,49 Our results for severe physical assault are plainly inconsistent with what other studies have found. 8,9,19 It is unclear why severe physical assault is uncorrelated with psychological distress in our multivariate models, when other (seemingly less traumatic) forms of violence like psychological aggression and minor physical assault are correlated with distress. One possibility is that small sample sizes across levels of severe physical violence may have limited our ability to detect statistically significant differences.…”

“…Numerous studies show that relationship violence during childhood and adulthood is associated with poorer mental health in adulthood. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Although it is difficult to establish the temporal order of the association between relationship violence and mental health status, 21 available longitudinal research is generally consistent with the idea that violence experiences may actually lead to greater psychological distress. 12 The effects of relationship violence on mental health are also generally consistent across a wide range of violence measures, including nonspecific violence and victimization, violence during childhood, physical assault, psychological aggression, and sexual coercion.…”

Mental Health Consequences and Risk Factors of Physical Intimate Partner Violence

“…Similarly Romito et al [31], asserts that interpersonal violence can lead to professional precariousness which in turn is a risk factor for psychological distress. One possible explanation for this relationship is that injuries, fractures, scars, bruises and other physical symptoms resulted from physical violence may inhibit women from attending their workplace because of either a need of medical attention and restriction of movement or having fear of losing face and disclosing.…”

Toward an integrated approach in research on interpersonal violence : Conceptual and methodological challenges

“…However, intimate partner violence has been associated with violence from acquaintances, strangers or co-workers in youth and adulthood (Porcerelli, Cogan, West et al, 2003;Romito, Molzan Turan and De Marchi, 2005;Taylor, Boris, Heller et al, 2008;Montero, Ruiz-Perez, Martin-Baena et al, 2011). Also, college women have been found to report repeated sexual and physical victimization (Daigle, Fisher and Cullen, 2008).…”

“…The associations between experiencing co-occurrence of violence in adulthood and ill-health have not been thoroughly investigated but have been reported to be associated with depression and anxiety in both sexes (Tubman, Montgomery, Gil and Wagner, 2004;Romito et al, 2005;Romito and Grassi, 2007;Margolin, Vickerman, Oliver and Gordis, 2010). …”