Exposure to interparental violence and psychosocial maladjustment in the adult life course: advocacy for early prevention
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Background: Early family-level and social-level stressors are both assumed to be the components of two main path models explaining the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and its long-term consequences on mental health explored through life-course epidemiological studies. Aims: To investigate the association between exposure to interparental violence in childhood and mental health outcomes in adulthood when taking into account early family and social stressors. Methods: A retrospective French cohort study of 3023 adults representative of the general population in the Paris metropolitan area was conducted in 2005 through at-home, face-to-face interviews. The outcomes measures were current depression and lifetime suicide attempt, intimate partner violence, violence against children and alcohol dependence. Results: The adults exposed to interparental violence during childhood had a higher risk of psychosocial maladjustment. After adjusting for family- and social-level stressors in childhood, this risk was, respectively, 1.44 (95% CI 1.03 to 2.00) for depression, 3.17 (1.75 to 5.73) for conjugal violence, 4.75 (1.60 to 14.14) for child maltreatment and 1.75 (1.19 to 2.57) for alcohol dependence. Conclusions: The adult consequences of parental violence in childhood—and this independently of the other forms of domestic violence and the related psychosocial risks—should lead to intensifying the prevention of and screening for this form of maltreatment of children.
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Several small scale and population-based studies conducted since 2009 have revealed correlations between IPV exposure and depression among adolescents and across the entire lifespan.
“Additionally, several small scale and population-based studies conducted since 2009 have revealed correlations between IPV exposure and depression among adolescents and across the entire lifespan”
From A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (2014) · cites this paper as Roustit et al., 2009
The Results and Discussion report an association between childhood exposure to interparental violence and depression at different ages in adulthood in a population-based study. The Discussion refers to earlier work on adolescent internalising disorders, but this 2009 paper does not establish the claimed finding from several studies conducted since 2009, nor does it itself measure adolescent depression. (LLM, conf=0.87)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIndividuals who witnessed domestic violence during childhood were 75% more likely to develop symptoms of alcohol dependence.
“individuals who witnessed domestic violence during childhood were 44% and 75% more likely to develop symptoms of depression and alcohol dependence, respectively”
From A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (2014) · cites this paper as Roustit et al., 2009
Individuals who witnessed domestic violence during childhood were 44% more likely to develop symptoms of depression.
“individuals who witnessed domestic violence during childhood were 44% and 75% more likely to develop symptoms of depression and alcohol dependence, respectively”
From A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (2014) · cites this paper as Roustit et al., 2009
The presence of IPV elevated the risk of perpetrating child abuse by almost five times.
“The presence of IPV elevated the risk of perpetrating IPV and child abuse by more than three times and almost five times, respectively.”
From A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (2014) · cites this paper as Roustit et al., 2009
The presence of IPV elevated the risk of perpetrating IPV by more than three times.
“The presence of IPV elevated the risk of perpetrating IPV and child abuse by more than three times and almost five times, respectively.”
From A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (2014) · cites this paper as Roustit et al., 2009
The association between childhood exposure to IPV and domestic violence perpetration is the strongest.
“the association between childhood exposure to IPV and domestic violence perpetration is the strongest”
From A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE ON THE IMPACT OF EXPOSURE TO INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH (2014) · cites this paper as Roustit et al., 2009
There is an undeniable link between childhood exposure to IPV and adverse life outcomes.
“International data suggest an undeniable link between childhood exposure to IPV and adverse life outcomes”
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- Authors
- Roustit, C., Renahy, E., Guernec, G., Lesieur, S., Parizot, I., & Chauvin, P.
- Affiliations
- Inserm (FR)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Corresponding author
- Roustit, C
- ORCID
- Venue
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
- Publisher
- BMJ
- Published
- 2009-05-28
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 563-568
- ISSN
- 0141-7681 (ISSN-L)
- 0143-005X
- 1470-2738
- PMC
- PMC2696641
- OpenAlex
- W2171457108
- Cited by
- 98
- References
- 8
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- FWCI
- 8.29
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
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- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
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- Funders
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
- Institut pour la Recherche en Santé Publique
- European Social Fund
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- interparental violence, childhood exposure to domestic violence, psychosocial maladjustment, depression, suicide attempts, intimate partner violence, child abuse, alcoholism, family stressors, social stressors, life course epidemiology
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Alcoholism, Child, Child Abuse, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Parents, Paris, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Social Adjustment, Socioeconomic Factors, Spouse Abuse, Suicide, Attempted, Cohort Studies, Domestic Violence, Young Adult
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