@article{ref1,
title="Prevalence of intimate partner violence victimization and victims' relational and sexual well-being",
journal="Journal of family violence",
year="2015",
author="Hellemans, Sabine and Loeys, Tom and Dewitte, Marieke and Smet, Olivia De and Buysse, Ann",
volume="30",
number="6",
pages="685-698",
abstract="Research shows that experiences with intimate partner violence (IPV) harm victims' individual well-being. Surprisingly, little is known about how IPV might impact on victims' well-being at the relationship level. Based on a population-based study in Flanders (the Northern part of Belgium), this study concentrates on how lifetime experience with IPV impacts on victims' relational and sexual well-being with their current partner. Ten percent of the population was confronted with physical violence and 56.7 % with psychological violence. Higher levels of IPV victimization corresponded with an adverse mental, relational (relationship satisfaction, attachment), and sexual (sexual satisfaction, sexual dysfunction, sexual communication) well-being in both women and men but except for the latter correlates, the effects were more pronounced for women than for men.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0885-7482",
doi="10.1007/s10896-015-9712-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-015-9712-z"
}