The Mediational Role of Relationship Efficacy and Resource Utilization in the Link Between Physical and Psychological Abuse and Relationship Termination

This study examines the roles of physical and emotional abuse and resource utilization, relationship efficacy, and childhood abuse on relationship status (together or separated) in a sample of 69 low-income, nonsheltered battered women. Separate path models were conducted for physical and psychologi...

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Published in:Violence against women 2005-01, Vol.11 (1), p.65-88
Main Authors: Raghavan, Chitra, Swan, Suzanne C., Snow, David L., Mazure, Carolyn M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abuse
Adult
Battered Women
Battered Women - psychology
Battered Women - statistics & numerical data
Child
Child abuse & neglect
Child Abuse - psychology
Childhood abuse
Childhood experiences
Childhood Factors
Domestic violence
Emotional abuse
Female
Health Resources - utilization
Humans
Internal-External Control
Interpersonal Relations
Intimate relationships
Low income families
Middle Aged
Models, Psychological
Personal relationships
Poverty
Predictors
Psychological abuse
Relational status
Social services
Social Services Utilization
Spouse Abuse - psychology
Spouse Abuse - statistics & numerical data
Status
Stress, Psychological - etiology
Studies
Surveys and Questionnaires
Termination
United States
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Summary:This study examines the roles of physical and emotional abuse and resource utilization, relationship efficacy, and childhood abuse on relationship status (together or separated) in a sample of 69 low-income, nonsheltered battered women. Separate path models were conducted for physical and psychological abuse. Increased physical abuse was related to separated status, increased resource utilization, and decreased efficacy. The effect of physical abuse on status was mediated by resource utilization and efficacy, whereas the effect of psychological abuse on status was partially mediated only by utilization. Increased childhood abuse was associated with together status. Baseline psychological but not physical abuse predicted a longer term separated status thereby suggesting that the effects of psychological abuse may be enduring.
ISSN:1077-8012
1552-8448
DOI:10.1177/1077801204271514