O impacto dos diferentes tipos de abuso, da perda de recursos, dos hábitos de saúde e da autoestima na morbilidade psicológica em mulheres vítimas de violência conjugal

Abstract

This study aims to analyze in what way different types of abuse, loss of resources, health habits and self-esteem influences psychological morbidity in women victims of intimate partner violence (N= 144). The present investigation consists in a self-report retrospective study and all participants answered a battery of instruments including the socio-demographic questionnaire, the Self-Esteem Scale (SES), the Conservation of Resources-Evaluation Questionnaire (COR-E), the Inventory of Psychopathologic Symptoms (BSI), Conflict Tactics Scales Revised 2 (CTS-2) and the Health Habits Questionnaire. The data indicate that women victims of ipv with low self-esteem presents more psychological morbidity (depression and anxiety), loss of resources, physical abuse with and without sequelae when compared with those with higher self-esteem. Loss of resources showed positive and significant correlation with depressive and anxious symptomatology, and self-esteem showed negative and significant correlation with the outcomes variables. The results from hierarchical regression showed that sexual abuse and low self-esteem contributed significantly to depression symptoms over and above the effects of the different types of abuse, loss of resources and health habits, after controlling socio-demographic variables. Low self-esteem and the absence of health habits contributed significantly to anxiety symptoms.

Date of Award	21 Jul 2016
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Eleonora C. V. Costa (Supervisor)