Psychological adjustment and victim-blaming among intimate partner violence offenders: the role of social support and stressful life events
Intimate partner violence offenders often use victim-blaming attributions to explain their own violent behavior. These attributions represent an important challenge for intervention programs for intimate-partner violence offenders. The main objectives of this study were to analyze both the influence of social support and stressful life events on the psychological adjustment (self-esteem and depressive symptomatology) of intimate partner violence offenders and the relationship between offenders' psychological adjustment and their victim-blaming attributions. The sample consists of 314 men convicted of intimate partner violence who were referred to a community-based intervention program. Results from a structural equation model showed that social support and stressful life events were related to psychological adjustment. Psychological adjustment also was related to victim-blaming attributions among intimate partner violence offenders. A better understanding of the relationships between psychological adjustment of intimate partner violence offenders and its determinants, as well as its impact on victim-blaming attributions, may provide support to new intervention strategies. Implications of these results for improving the effectiveness of intervention programs are discussed.
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| Format: | Digital revista |
| Language: | English |
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Sociedad Española de Psicología Jurídica y Forense; Colegio Oficial de la Psicología de Madrid
2013
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| Online Access: | http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1889-18612013000200004 |
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