A influência do suporte social e do trauma cumulativo na predição de perturbação de stress pós-traumático e depressão em mulheres vítimas de violência conjugal

Abstract

This study examines the influence of social support and the cumulative trauma as predictors of depressive symptoms and PTSD in women victims of intimate partner violence (N = 144). Using retrospective self-report, and all participants completed a battery of instruments including the socio-demographic questionnaire, a self-report scale of PTSD symptomatology, the Social Support Scale (SPS), the Inventory of Psychological Symptoms (BSI), the revised conflict tactics scales (CTS2) and childhood trauma questionnaire (CTQ). It was concluded that there are significant differences among women victims of IPV with social support and no social support in terms of cumulative trauma, depression, and PTSD; and we can thus conclude that the higher childhood trauma more likely to experience depressive symptoms, when higher the childhood trauma lowest social support; the high social support predicted lower severity os symptoms of PTSD and depression, and the existence of childhood trauma predicts more likely to experience depressive symptoms in women victims of IPV. Going against the literatura refering to the social support and the cumulative trauma as strong predictor of psychopathology in women victims of IPV.

Date of Award	22 Mar 2016
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Eleonora C. V. Costa (Supervisor)