Spouse Aggression: Mental & Physical Health Consequences

描述（由申请人提供）：婚姻攻击，即使在长期和相对稳定的关系，是太常见的发生。虽然已经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的攻击经历知之甚少。需要研究来了解亲密攻击在这一特定人群中的心理和身体健康后果。本研究的目的是探讨抑郁症，创伤后应激障碍，恐惧，健康风险行为，和身体健康的后果，过去和现在的婚姻侵略的119名中年男性和女性。[The这项研究评估了男性和女性的身体和情感攻击四次，每次大约间隔一年。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行为对健康结果的直接影响，以及攻击行为是否通过抑郁、创伤后应激障碍和恐惧对健康产生间接影响。通过自我报告和与配偶双方的访谈收集数据。将使用偏最小二乘路径分析来分析数据。

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.