ArticleAnnals of epidemiology2012
Adverse childhood experiences and intimate partner violence: testing psychosocial mediational pathways among couples.
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- Partner Effects of Childhood Maltreatment: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Pooled it
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- Prospective Analysis of Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adults' Physical Intimate Partner Violence Victimization.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2025Article
- Relationship Functioning Buffers the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Intimate Partner Violence Among Latino Sexual Minority Male Couples.Journal of family violence · 2024Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Intimate Partner Violence Among Recent Adults: Mental Health and Race.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- Gender moderates the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and mutual intimate partner violence in an emergency department sample.Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine · 2024Article
- Understanding the effect of adverse childhood experiences on the risk of engaging in physical violence toward an intimate partner: The influence of relationship, social psychological, and sociodemographic contextual risk factors.Child abuse & neglect · 2023Article
- Intimate Partner Violence inInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Longitudinal Associations Between Childhood Adversity and Adolescent Intimate Partner Violence in Malawi.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2023Article
- Epidemiology of intimate partner violence perpetration and victimisation in a representative sample.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2023Observational
- Social and Behavioral Pathways between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poor Adult Physical Health: Mediation by Early Adulthood Experiences in a Low-Income Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Associations between Adverse Childhood Experiences within the Family Context and In-Person and Online Dating Violence in Adulthood: A Scoping Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Associations between adverse childhood experiences and contraceptive use among young adults in Honduras.Child abuse & neglect · 2022Article
- Armed conflict, HIV, and syndemic risk markers of mental distress, alcohol misuse, and intimate partner violence among couples in Uganda.Journal of traumatic stress · 2021Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and psychological distress among higher education students in Southeast Nigeria: an institutional-based cross-sectional study.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2021Article
- Frequency of Intimate Partner Violence among an Urban Emergency Department Sample: A Multilevel Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeAdverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with an increased likelihood of intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood. We tested whether psychosocial factors, such as depression, anxiety, impulsivity, and problem drinking, mediate associations between ACEs and IPV.
methodsCouple data from a cross-sectional sample of married/cohabiting couples residing in 50 medium-to-large California cities (n = 1861 couples) were used. Hypothesized relationships among male and female ACE, male-to-female partner violence (MFPV) and female-to-male partner violence (FMPV), frequency of intoxication, depression, impulsivity, and anxiety were tested with structural equation path models, and the significance of both individual direct paths and indirect associations was determined.
resultsMale and female partners had positive direct associations between ACEs and depression, anxiety, and impulsivity. Males' anxiety and impulsivity and females' depression were positively related to MFPV. Males' depression and frequency of intoxication and females' depression, were positively related to FMPV. Indirect associations between male ACEs and MPFV via depression; male ACEs and FMPV via anxiety and impulsivity; and female ACEs and MPFV and FMPV via depression were all positive and significant.
conclusionsAdverse childhood experiences impact IPV partially through psychosocial characteristics. Interventions targeted at reducing ACEs and subsequent psychosocial outcomes may help reduce adult IPV.
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