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Prevalence and impact of intimate partner violence (IPV) among an ethnic minority population

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Hellemans, Sabine, Loeys, Tom, Buysse, Ann, De Smet, Olivia·2015·Journal of Interpersonal Violence
DOI 10.1177/0886260514563830
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The present study examined the prevalence of lifetime experiences of physical and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) among members of the Turkish ethnic minority population in Flanders. In addition, this study explored how lifetime IPV victimization affects ethnic minority victims' current mental, relational, and sexual well-being. Using a population-based representative sample, data from 392 adult Turkish women and men were investigated. Lifetime experiences of physical violence were reported by 14.3% of the Turkish respondents, while 66.0% reported at least one incidence of psychological abuse. Women were much more likely than men to report physical IPV victimization, but no gender differences were found for psychological IPV. With regard to the impact of IPV, it was found that lifetime IPV experiences do not appear to affect victims' current mental health. However, higher levels of physical and/or psychological IPV victimization were related to increased levels of relationship dissatisfaction, anxious and avoidant attachment orientations, sexual dissatisfaction, sexual dysfunction (with distress), and to decreased levels of sexual communication. These adverse relational and sexual outcomes of IPV victimization were mainly present among women but were also, to a lesser degree, relevant for men.

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  • Some authors found an inverse pattern of results with associations between insecure attachment and IPV victimization being significant only among women.

    “some authors found an inverse pattern of results with associations between insecure attachment and IPV victimization being significant only among women (Péloquin et al., 2011; Hellemans et al., 2015).”

    From Exploring Relationships: A Systematic Review on Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment (2018) · cites this paper as Hellemans et al., 2015

    The results section (page unavailable) reports an association between psychological IPV and attachment avoidance only among women. But it also reports elevated attachment anxiety among men who experienced physical IPV, so the broader claim that associations with insecure attachment were significant only among women is not supported. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • Three studies in the category pointing out a significant relationship between avoidant attachment and physical IPV victimization suffer from methodological concerns related to the lack of a validated measure of IPV.

    “However, it has to be noted that from the last category, three studies suffer from methodological concerns related to the lack of a validated measure of IPV (Craparo et al., 2014; Hellemans et al., 2015; Karakoç et al., 2015).”

    From Exploring Relationships: A Systematic Review on Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment (2018) · cites this paper as Hellemans et al., 2015

  • Physical IPV victimization was related with attachment avoidance among women and with attachment anxiety among men.

    “Finally, gender differences emerged in the study of Hellemans et al. (2015) suggested that physical IPV victimization was related with attachment avoidance among women and with attachment anxiety among men.”

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Authors
Hellemans, S., Loeys, T., Buysse, A., & De Smet, O.
Affiliations
  • Ghent University (BE)
  • Ghent University, Belgium
Corresponding author
Hellemans, Sabine
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2014-12-16
Volume
30
Issue
19
Pages
3389-3418
ISSN
  • 0886-2605 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-6518
DOI
10.1177/0886260514563830
OpenAlex
W2038472807
Cited by
25
References
74
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2
FWCI
0.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Vlaamse regering
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Elder Abuse and Neglect
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Keywords
intimate partner violence, physical violence, psychological violence, Flanders, prevalence, mental health, relationship dissatisfaction, attachment styles, sexual dissatisfaction, sexual dysfunction, sexual communication, gender differences
MeSH terms
Intimate Partner Violence, Adolescent, Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Mental Status Schedule, Middle Aged, Minority Groups, Object Attachment, Personal Satisfaction, Sexual Behavior, Turkey, Prevalence, Young Adult

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