Lilly Michelle M, Graham-Bermann Sandra A
Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA.
Violence Vict. 2010;25(5):604-16. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.25.5.604.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects millions of women every year, often resulting in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The strength of the relationship between IPV and PTSD has been shown to be affected by factors such as the amount of violence exposure and the style of coping in which the individual engages. For example, emotion-focused coping has been shown to be strongly related to IPV exposure and the expression of PTSD symptoms. This topic was explored in IPV survivors, with the finding that more frequent use of emotion-focused coping was associated with both higher violence exposure and heightened PTSD symptoms. Regression analyses revealed that emotion-focused coping moderated the relationship between IPV exposure and PTSD symptoms. More specifically, the results suggest that while individuals low on emotion-focused coping had fewer PTSD symptoms than women who frequently used emotion-focused coping, these individuals reported higher PTSD symptoms in the presence of frequent violence exposure. For individuals who frequently engaged in emotion-focused coping, violence exposure was less strongly associated with symptoms of PTSD.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）每年影响数百万女性，常常导致创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）。IPV与PTSD之间关系的强度已被证明会受到暴力暴露量和个体采用的应对方式等因素的影响。例如，聚焦情绪应对已被证明与IPV暴露及PTSD症状的表达密切相关。在IPV幸存者中对该主题进行了探讨，结果发现更频繁地使用聚焦情绪应对与更高的暴力暴露及更严重的PTSD症状相关。回归分析表明，聚焦情绪应对调节了IPV暴露与PTSD症状之间的关系。更具体地说，结果表明，虽然聚焦情绪应对能力较低的个体比经常使用聚焦情绪应对的女性有更少的PTSD症状，但在频繁遭受暴力暴露的情况下，这些个体报告的PTSD症状更严重。对于经常采用聚焦情绪应对的个体，暴力暴露与PTSD症状的关联较弱。
