Citation

Chang EC, Kahle ER, Hirsch JK. Violence Against Women 2015; 21(6): 700-711.

Affiliation

East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801215576580

PMID

25802015

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between domestic abuse, belongingness, and depressive symptoms in a community sample of 71 female primary care patients. As expected, domestic abuse was associated with greater depressive symptoms.

RESULTS from conducting mediation analyses, including bootstrapping techniques, provided strong convergent support for a model in which the hypothesized effect of domestic abuse on depressive symptoms in women is mediated by a loss of belongingness. Noteworthy, even after controlling for content overlap between measures of belongingness and depressive symptoms, the mediation model remained significant. Some implications of the present findings are discussed.

Language: en