Victimization by Multiple Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Seeking its Factors via the Multiple Disadvantage Model

AbstractThe applied model —the multiple disadvantage model—examined factors related to victimization by multiple perpetrators of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample was 3226 women completing the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. Logistic regression results showed likelihood of victimization by multiple IPV perpetrators to be associated negatively with being married/cohabiting, relatives’ helpfulness, friends’ helpfulness, mental health professionals’ helpfulness, mental health, and age, while being associated positively with education level, IPV perpetration by current partner, tel ling informal support about IPV, duration of limitation of activities due to health/mental health, telling professionals about IPV, and perpetrator’s substance use. The findings’ implications include a need to raise survivors’ and service providers’ awareness of effects of victimization by m ultiple IPV perpetrators.
Source: Global Social Welfare - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research