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Interpersonal violence: Expanding the search for long‐term sequelae within a sample of battered women
Author(s) -
Weaver Terri L.,
Clum George A.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of traumatic stress
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.259
H-Index - 134
eISSN - 1573-6598
pISSN - 0894-9867
DOI - 10.1002/jts.2490090408
Subject(s) - psychology , sexual abuse , physical abuse , clinical psychology , interpersonal communication , poison control , personality , psychological abuse , child abuse , injury prevention , interpersonal relationship , suicide prevention , psychiatry , developmental psychology , medicine , social psychology , medical emergency
Lifetime sexual and physical victimization histories were examined within a shelter and outpatient sample of battered women ( N = 43). Rates of prior victimization were very high with 71% of women reporting a childhood experience of physical abuse and 53% of women reporting a childhood experience of sexual abuse. These experiences were then examined as predictors of intra‐ and interpersonal functioning. Difficulties with identity development, low self‐worth, borderline personality characteristics, and (at the trend level) difficulties with intimacy, received some support as long‐term outcomes associated with reports of chronic experiences of childhood physical abuse. These findings provide some empirical support for the theorized relationship between childhood abuse and difficulties in the domains of intra‐ and interpersonal functioning.