Stockman Dagmar, Uzieblo Katarzyna, Fomenko Elizaveta, Littleton Heather, Keygnaert Ines, Lemmens Gilbert, Verhofstadt Lesley
Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Expertise Network People and Society, Artevelde University College of Applied Sciences, Ghent, Belgium.
Psychol Belg. 2024 Dec 17;64(1):185-200. doi: 10.5334/pb.1240. eCollection 2024.
Increasing evidence shows how distress following sexual violence might spill over to victims' romantic relationship functioning. However, studies investigating the reverse spillover between relationship functioning and psychological distress following sexual violence are lacking. The current study therefore aimed to investigate the bidirectional association between victims' psychological distress (posttraumatic stress, depression, anxiety and stress) and emotional and sexual intimacy using a three-wave yearly survey study of a community sample of sexual violence victims ( = 274, 89% women, 3% men and 8% trans persons, = 32 years, = 10.7). Results show evidence for spillover effects for posttraumatic stress and stress on emotional intimacy and for anxiety on sexual intimacy. In addition, reverse spillover effects for emotional intimacy were found on all indicators of psychological distress and for sexual intimacy on depression and anxiety. These results suggest that victims' individual and relational functioning is bidirectionally associated. In addition, results suggest that targeting intimacy levels within romantic relationships might improve victims' individual functioning and vice versa. Future research that includes dyadic assessment could enhance our understanding of the bidirectional associations between individual functioning and couple functioning following sexual violence.
越来越多的证据表明，性暴力后的痛苦可能会蔓延到受害者的恋爱关系中。然而，缺乏对性暴力后恋爱关系功能与心理痛苦之间反向溢出效应的研究。因此，本研究旨在通过对性暴力受害者社区样本进行的为期三年的年度调查研究（n = 274，89%为女性，3%为男性，8%为跨性别者，M = 32岁，SD = 10.7），调查受害者心理痛苦（创伤后应激、抑郁、焦虑和压力）与情感和性亲密关系之间的双向关联。结果显示，创伤后应激和压力对情感亲密关系有溢出效应，焦虑对性亲密关系有溢出效应。此外，还发现情感亲密关系对所有心理痛苦指标有反向溢出效应，性亲密关系对抑郁和焦虑有反向溢出效应。这些结果表明，受害者的个体功能和恋爱关系功能是双向关联的。此外，结果表明，针对恋爱关系中的亲密程度可能会改善受害者的个体功能，反之亦然。未来包括二元评估的研究可以增进我们对性暴力后个体功能和伴侣功能之间双向关联的理解。
