Alcohol-Related Intimate Partner Violence among Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Adults

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Project Summary/Abstract The long-term objective of the proposed project is to determine whether (1) alcohol use temporally precedes and increases the risk for intimate partner violence (IPV), (2) whether IPV temporally precedes and increases the risk for alcohol use, and (3) whether proximal (e.g., trauma symptoms, gender identity discrimination) and distal (e.g., childhood abuse, internalized transphobia) factors moderate the alcohol-IPV link among adults who identify as transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC). Importantly, the proposed study will utilize a daily diary design to examine the aims and will provide the most rigorous and comprehensive assessment of the associations between alcohol use and IPV among individuals who identify as TGNC to date. IPV includes psychological, physical, and sexual aggression, which occur at alarmingly high rates in cisgender intimate relationships. Rates of IPV are as high, if not higher, among TGNC adults. Moreover, IPV leads to poor mental and physical health outcomes for victims, as well as increased health care utilization. The proposed project will investigate the temporal relationships between alcohol use and IPV in 130 TGNC adult drinkers. Unfortunately, there is no research on proximal and distal moderators (e.g., trauma symptoms, childhood abuse, internalized transphobia, gender identity discrimination, TGNC-specific social support) of the temporal relationships between alcohol use and IPV among TGNC populations. Moreover, no research has examined the temporal relationships between alcohol use and IPV in TGNC populations. Participants will complete brief daily surveys each day for 60 consecutive days. The daily assessments will allow for more accurate reporting on the temporal relationship between alcohol and IPV, including proximal moderators of this association. An integrated theoretical framework, which considers theoretical models of alcohol-related IPV (i.e., I3) and gender minority stress, will be utilized to examine key factors which may moderate these associations (e.g., trauma symptoms, internalized transphobia, TGNC-specific social support). This project has the potential to provide crucial information that can be used to reduce IPV among TGNC people.