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Abstract
Intimate partner violence (IPV) can have detrimental consequences, including later IPV victimization for children exposed to IPV.
Purpose
This study, using a dyadic design, investigates the mediating role of emerging adults’ childhood exposure to IPV in the association between their mothers’ childhood exposure to IPV and their own experience of physical injury in intimate relationships, as well as the moderating role of mother’s psychological distress in these associations.
Results showed that maternal exposure to IPV in childhood was indirectly associated with emerging adults’ experiences of physical injury in intimate relationships through emerging adults’ childhood exposure to IPV, and that the association between mothers’ and emerging adults’ childhood exposures to IPV was only significant at high levels of maternal distress.
Conclusions
Accessible services to support the mental health of survivors of childhood exposure to IPV may be promising in breaking intergenerational cycles of IPV.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Family Violence (JOFV) is a peer-reviewed publication committed to the dissemination of rigorous research on preventing, ending, and ameliorating all forms of family violence. JOFV welcomes scholarly articles related to the broad categories of child abuse and maltreatment, dating violence, domestic and partner violence, and elder abuse. Within these categories, JOFV emphasizes research on physical violence, psychological violence, sexual violence, and homicides that occur in families. Studies on families in all their various forms and diversities are welcome. JOFV publishes studies using quantitative, qualitative, and/or mixed methods involving the collection of primary data. Rigorous systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and theoretical analyses are also welcome. To help advance scientific understandings of family violence, JOFV is especially interested in research using transdisciplinary perspectives and innovative research methods. Because family violence is a global problem requiring solutions from diverse disciplinary perspectives, JOFV strongly encourages submissions from scholars worldwide from all disciplines and backgrounds.