@article{ref1,
title="Attachment style and early maladaptive schemas as mediators of the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and intimate partner violence",
journal="Journal of aggression, maltreatment and trauma",
year="2013",
author="Gay, Lauren E. and Harding, Hilary G. and Jackson, Joan L. and Burns, Erin E. and Baker, Brittany D.",
volume="22",
number="4",
pages="408-424",
abstract="Theoretical and empirical research suggests possible pathways between women's experiences of childhood emotional abuse (CEA) and later intimate partner violence victimization (IPV-V) and perpetration (IPV-P), including attachment style and early maladaptive schemas. This study tested a model examining the unique mediating effects of insecure attachment and early maladaptive schemas on the relationship between CEA and IPV-V (n = 396) or IPV-P (n = 409) in college women. Contrary to hypotheses that both attachment style and maladaptive schema endorsement would mediate the relationship between CEA and IPV-V and IPV-P, regression analyses indicated the disconnection/rejection schema domain was the only significant mediator between CEA and IPV-V (p = .01). This same relation held for childhood emotional abuse and IPV-P (p < .001). These findings provide preliminary clinical utility for examining schema endorsement, the use of schema therapy (Young, Klosko, & Weishar, 2003), or both with women who have emotional abuse and IPV histories.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1092-6771",
doi="10.1080/10926771.2013.775982",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2013.775982"
}