Spouse Aggression: Mental & Physical Health Consequences

描述（由申请人提供）：即使在长期和相对稳定的关系中，婚姻暴力也很常见。虽然在受虐妇女和临床人群中研究了亲密暴力对身心健康的影响，但对社区夫妇在长期关系中遭受侵犯的经历了解较少。需要进行研究，以了解亲密攻击对这一特定人群的心理和身体健康的影响。本研究的目的是研究119名中年男性和女性过去和现在的婚姻暴力对抑郁、创伤后应激障碍、恐惧、健康风险行为和身体健康的影响。这项研究分四次评估男性和女性的身体和情感攻击性，每次相隔大约一年。具体目标包括：(a)评估过去和现在的攻击行为对伴侣抑郁、创伤后应激障碍和恐惧的影响；(b)检查过去和现在的攻击对健康结果的直接影响，以及是否通过抑郁、创伤后应激障碍和恐惧[攻击对健康有间接影响]。数据是通过自我报告和对夫妻双方的访谈来收集的。偏最小二乘路径分析将用于分析数据。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Marital aggression, even in long-term and relatively stable relationships, is too common an occurrence. Although mental and physical health consequences of intimate violence have been examined in battered women and clinical populations, less is known about community couples' experiences of aggression in long term relationships. Research is needed to understand the mental and physical health consequences of intimate aggression in this particular population. The objective of this research proposal is to examine depression, PTSD, fear, health risk behaviors, and physical health consequences of past and current marital aggression for 119 middle-aged males and females. [The study assesses males' and females' physical and emotional aggression at four times, each approximately one year apart.] The specific aims include: (a) evaluating the effects of past and current aggression on partner's depression, PTSD, and fear; and (b) examining the direct effects of past and current aggression on health outcomes and whether [aggression has indirect effects on health] through depression, PTSD, and fear. Data are collected through self-reports and interviews with both spouses. Partial least squares path analysis will be used to analyze the data.