Social isolation and loneliness as factors maintaining domestic violence

将受害者与支持系统隔离是家庭暴力的一种常见策略，但我们对这种做法的一个关键心理后果知之甚少：孤独。早期的研究已经确定，孤独是受害者-幸存者决定留在暴力关系中并在逃离后返回的一个因素。该项目旨在通过混合方法了解孤独作为家庭暴力的一个特征及其对受害者-幸存者的长期影响。这将包括收集受害者-幸存者和服务工作者的重复测量和定性数据。该项目将努力全面介绍孤独对家庭暴力受害者的影响，以及我们如何制定未来的服务对策。

Isolating victims from support systems is a common tactic of domestic violence, yet we know very little about a key psychological consequence of this: Loneliness. Early research has identified loneliness as a factor in victim-survivor decisions to stay in violent relationships and to return after escape. This project aims to understand loneliness as a feature of domestic violence and its long-term impacts on victim-survivors using a mixed-methods approach. This will include collection of repeated measures and qualitative data with victim-survivors and service workers. This project will endeavour to provide a comprehensive picture of the impact of loneliness on victims of domestic violence and how we can shape our future service responses.