TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Attachment style and early maladaptive schemas as mediators of the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and intimate partner violence
JO  - Journal of aggression, maltreatment and trauma
A1  - Gay, Lauren E.
A1  - Harding, Hilary G.
A1  - Jackson, Joan L.
A1  - Burns, Erin E.
A1  - Baker, Brittany D.
SP  - 408
EP  - 424
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
N2  - 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 />
LA  - en
SN  - 1092-6771
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2013.775982
ID  - ref1
ER  -