Stappenbeck Cynthia A, Hammett Julia F, Gulati Natasha K, Kaysen Debra
Department of Psychology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA.
Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ.
Psychol Violence. 2023 May;13(3):258-266. doi: 10.1037/vio0000458. Epub 2022 Dec 1.
Intimate partner aggression (IPA), encompassing psychological and physical aggression, is a public health concern due to its high rates among young adults. Research and theory connect heavy drinking and emotion regulation (ER) difficulties to IPA and highlight their potential role in reducing IPA. A web-based intervention combining alcohol reduction strategies with ER skills demonstrated initial efficacy at reducing heavy drinking and improving ER abilities among college women with sexual assault victimization histories.
The present study represents a secondary analysis of this brief web-based intervention to evaluate its preliminary efficacy on IPA. The sample comprised 200 heavy drinking college women with histories of sexual assault victimization randomized to an assessment only control or the intervention consisting of 14 brief online alcohol reduction and ER skill building modules administered daily over a two-week period. The analytic sample included 103 women who reported their psychological and physical IPA at both the 1- and 6-month follow-up surveys.
After controlling for alcohol use, repeated measures mixed models examining changes from baseline to 6-month follow-up by condition revealed a significant time-by-intervention interaction effect on psychological IPA. Women who received the intervention had a significant decrease in psychological IPA from baseline to 6-month follow-up; there was no change in psychological IPA among women in the control condition. There was no significant effect of the intervention on physical IPA.
Reducing alcohol use and improving ER skills may be beneficial in helping women cope with relational conflict, thereby decreasing their use of psychological IPA.
亲密伴侣攻击行为（IPA），包括心理和身体攻击，因其在年轻人中发生率较高而成为一个公共卫生问题。研究和理论将大量饮酒及情绪调节（ER）困难与IPA联系起来，并强调它们在减少IPA方面的潜在作用。一项将减少酒精摄入策略与ER技能相结合的网络干预措施，在减少有性侵犯受害史的大学女生的大量饮酒行为及提高其ER能力方面显示出初步成效。
本研究是对这一简短网络干预措施的二次分析，以评估其对IPA的初步疗效。样本包括200名有性侵犯受害史的大量饮酒的大学女生，她们被随机分为仅进行评估的对照组或干预组，干预组由14个简短的在线减少酒精摄入和ER技能培养模块组成，在两周内每天进行。分析样本包括103名在1个月和6个月随访调查中报告了其心理和身体IPA情况的女性。
在控制了酒精使用情况后，通过重复测量混合模型按条件检验从基线到6个月随访的变化，结果显示干预对心理IPA有显著的时间×干预交互效应。接受干预的女性从基线到6个月随访时心理IPA显著下降；对照组女性的心理IPA没有变化。干预对身体IPA没有显著影响。
减少酒精使用和提高ER技能可能有助于女性应对关系冲突，从而减少她们心理IPA的使用。
