Citation

Woerner J, Wyatt J, Sullivan TP. Violence Against Women 2019; 25(10): 1243-1261.

Affiliation

Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801218811681

PMID

30511587

Abstract

The social reactions that victims receive when disclosing intimate partner violence (IPV) have important implications for recovery and well-being. Women from the community ( n = 172) reported IPV, reactions to IPV disclosure, and mental health symptoms in individual interviews. Latent profile analyses revealed three subgroups of victims with varied experiences of reactions. The group characterized by high negative/low positive reactions reported the highest depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptom severity; symptom severity was high regardless of IPV severity. However, symptoms were only severe at high IPV severity among individuals classified into groups characterized by high positive reactions, and by low negative and low positive reactions.

Language: en

Keywords

IPV disclosure; PTSD; depression; intimate partner violence; social reactions