Mothers’ posttraumatic stress and child adjustment problems in families seeking services for intimate partner violence.

The role of parenting may be challenging and complex for parents who are violent in their relationship and employ poor and negative parenting practices. Synthesizing the knowledge of safe father–child interactions in post–domestic violence incidents and positive fathering skills is the major goal of this review. It also aims to identify the available literature on key factors and conditions around child adjustment following intimate partner violence incidents. In order to achieve these goals, this article applied a narrative style literature review. Electronic databases and websites of children’s social services and domestic violence interventions were searched, and 12 research studies met the criteria for the review. The synthesis of the literature suggests that improving custody workers’ knowledge of intimate partner violence and developing father’s parenting practices during interventions are essential in achieving the safety of father–child interactions. The father’s regular participation in perpetrator interventions and parenting programs can prevent them from continuing to abuse their partners and children during visitations. As a result, an approach that acknowledges the multifaceted factors for safe father–child contact and the multifaceted means of reducing child adjustment problems after parental separation was developed.

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The effects of gender role conflict restricted emotionality on the association between exposure to trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder and intimate partner violence severity.

Psychology of Men & Masculinity ◽

10.1037/men0000266 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 88-100

Author(s):

Ohad Gilbar ◽

Stephen R. Wester ◽

Anat Ben-Porat

Keyword(s):

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Role Conflict ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Gender Role Conflict ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Violence Severity ◽

Exposure To Trauma

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Trauma, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and dissociative experiences during men’s intimate partner violence perpetration.

Psychological Trauma Theory Research Practice and Policy ◽

10.1037/tra0000205 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 9 (5) ◽

pp. 567-574 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Adam D. LaMotte ◽

Christopher M. Murphy

Keyword(s):

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration ◽

Dissociative Experiences ◽

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms ◽

Violence Perpetration

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Intimate Partner Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: Indirect Effects Through Negative and Positive Emotion Dysregulation

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/08862605211006371 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 088626052110063

Author(s):

Lauren E. Simpson ◽

Alexa M. Raudales ◽

Miranda E. Reyes ◽

Tami P. Sullivan ◽

Nicole H. Weiss

Keyword(s):

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Symptom Severity ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Emotion Dysregulation ◽

Positive Emotion ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Difficulties In Emotion Regulation

Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are at heightened risk for developing posttraumatic stress (PTS). Emotion dysregulation has been linked to both IPV and PTS, separately, however, unknown is the role of emotion dysregulation in the relation of IPV to PTS among women who experience IPV. Moreover, existing investigations in this area have been limited in their focus on negative emotion dysregulation. Extending prior research, this study investigated whether physical, sexual, and psychological IPV were indirectly associated with PTS symptom severity through negative and positive emotion dysregulation. Participants were 354 women who reported a history of IPV recruited from Amazon’s MTurk platform ( Mage = 36.52, 79.9% white). Participants completed self-report measures assessing physical (Conflict Tactics Scale), sexual (Sexual Experiences Scale), and psychological (Psychological Maltreatment of Women) IPV; negative (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) and positive (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Positive) emotion dysregulation; and PTS symptom severity (PTSD Checklist for DSM-5) via an online survey. Pearson’s correlation coefficients examined intercorrelations among the primary study variables. Indirect effect analyses were conducted to determine if negative and positive emotion dysregulation explained the relations between physical, sexual, and psychological IPV and PTS symptom severity. Physical, sexual, and psychological IPV were significantly positively associated with both negative and positive emotion dysregulation as well as PTS symptom severity, with the exception that psychological IPV was not significantly associated with positive emotion dysregulation. Moreover, negative and positive emotion dysregulation accounted for the relationships between all three IPV types and PTS symptom severity, with the exception of positive emotion dysregulation and psychological IPV. Our findings provide support for the potential underlying role of both negative and positive emotion dysregulation in the associations of IPV types to PTS symptom severity. Negative and positive emotion dysregulation may be important factors to integrate into interventions for PTS among women who experience IPV.

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Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Clusters and Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence: Findings From a U.S. Nationally Representative Sample

Journal of Traumatic Stress ◽

10.1002/jts.22048 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (5) ◽

pp. 469-474 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Kathryn Z. Smith ◽

Philip H. Smith ◽

John M. Violanti ◽

Paul T. Bartone ◽

Gregory G. Homish

Keyword(s):

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Representative Sample ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Symptom Clusters ◽

Disorder Symptom ◽

Nationally Representative

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Intimate Partner Violence Predicts Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Severity Independent of Early Life and Deployment-Related Trauma in Deployed Men and Women Veterans

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260520938514 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 088626052093851

Author(s):

Meghan E. Pierce ◽

Catherine Fortier ◽

Jennifer R. Fonda ◽

William Milberg ◽

Regina McGlinchey

Keyword(s):

Gender Differences ◽

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Early Life ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Men And Women ◽

Ptsd Severity

Intimate partner violence (IPV) refers to emotional, physical, and/or sexual abuse perpetrated by a current or former partner. IPV affects both genders, though little is known about its effects on men as victims. The aims of this study were to determine if IPV is a factor contributing to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) severity independently of deployment-related trauma, and to determine if there are gender differences in these associations. Participants were 46 female and 471 male post-9/11 veterans. Four sequential regressions were employed to examine the independent contribution of IPV among multiple trauma types on PTSD severity in men and women at two epochs, post-deployment (participants were anchored to deployment-related PTSD symptoms) and current (within the past month). Models were significant for both epochs in men ( ps < .001) but not in women ( ps > .230). In men, IPV independently predicted PTSD severity in both epochs (β > .093). However, in women, early life trauma (β = .284), but not IPV was a significant and independent predictor for current PTSD. Thus, there are distinct gender differences in how trauma type contributes to PTSD symptom severity. Although the statistical models were not significant in women, we observed similar patterns of results as in men and, in some cases, the β was actually higher in women than in men, suggesting a lack of power in our analyses. More research is clearly needed to follow-up these results; however, our findings indicate that IPV is a contributing factor to PTSD severity in veterans.

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