TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychological Distress and Substance Use Among Community-Recruited Women Currently Victimized by Intimate Partners
T2 - A Latent Class Analysis and Examination of Between-Class Differences
AU - Golder, Seana
AU - Connell, Christian M.
AU - Sullivan, Tami P.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: The research described here was supported, in part, by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R03 DA17668; K23 DA019561).
PY - 2012/8
Y1 - 2012/8
N2 - Latent class analysis was used to examine patterns of victimization among a community sample of 212 women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Results identified three classes of women characterized by victimization history (recent IPV, childhood victimization); classes were further differentiated by IPV-related posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, other indicators of psychological distress, and substance use. Differentiating levels of victimization and their associated patterns of psychosocial functioning can be used to develop intervention strategies targeting the needs of different subgroups of women so that mental health and substance use problems can be reduced or prevented altogether. Implications for treatment and future research are presented here.
AB - Latent class analysis was used to examine patterns of victimization among a community sample of 212 women experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). Results identified three classes of women characterized by victimization history (recent IPV, childhood victimization); classes were further differentiated by IPV-related posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, other indicators of psychological distress, and substance use. Differentiating levels of victimization and their associated patterns of psychosocial functioning can be used to develop intervention strategies targeting the needs of different subgroups of women so that mental health and substance use problems can be reduced or prevented altogether. Implications for treatment and future research are presented here.
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U2 - 10.1177/1077801212456991
DO - 10.1177/1077801212456991
M3 - Article
C2 - 23008429
AN - SCOPUS:84866650534
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 18
SP - 934
EP - 957
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 8
ER -