Theses and Dissertations

Date of Award

12-2020

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Clinical Psychology

First Advisor

Dr. Ruby Charak

Second Advisor

Dr. Janene Israel

Third Advisor

Dr. Po-Yi Chen

Abstract

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is defined as the abuse or aggression that occurs in a close relationship. Statistics show that the most prevalent types of IPV are psychological, physical, and sexual. In the U.S. 1 in 4 women (24.4%, or 29.2 million) are victims of IPV before the age of 25. Minorities and socioeconomically disadvantaged women are most likely to experience it. Depression, among others, is one of the harmful consequences resulting from IPV victimization. The present study focuses on the role of emotion dysregulation in the association between IPV and depression. It was hypothesized that emotion dysregulation mediates the association between IPV and depression. The sample studied in the present study consisted of (N = 892) Hispanic college undergraduate females attending the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The age range was 18 to 29 years old. After running a parallel mediation model and ruling out possible covariates, it was found that IPV subtype—psychological—leads to variance in symptoms of depression through emotion regulation subscale, namely, lack of access to emotion regulation strategies for feeling better when distressed, that IPV subtypes—physical and sexual IPV—lead to variance in symptoms of depression through emotion regulation subscales, namely, lack of clarity and lack of access to emotion regulation strategies for feeling better when distressed, and that even when childhood maltreatment (CM) was present, sexual IPV leads to variance in symptoms of depression through emotion dysregulation subscales, namely, lack of clarity and lack of access to emotion regulation strategies for feeling better when distressed. Further studies with Hispanic samples in other locations should be conducted as means to compare the findings across groups that contribute to the creation and implementation of effective treatments and helpful resources.

Comments

Copyright 2020 Maria Gabriela Copeiro De Lestarpe. All Rights Reserved.

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