Complicating the IPV-health link: The role of relationship context

Copp, Jennifer E.

Friday, March 20, 2015: 1:50 PM-3:10 PM

Room 5 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Jennifer E. Copp, M.A., Bowling Green State University

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Understand the importance of a longitudinal lens on the IPV-health connection, and gain insight about effects on men’s as well as women’s IPV experiences.
Be able to identify other specific relationship dynamics that often co-occur with IPV that largely explain the health-IPV association, and that are significantly associated with decisions to leave a violent relationship.
Gain an enhanced appreciation of the need for a relationship-centered approach to screening, prevention, and intervention, and one that has a good fit with the relationship concerns and experiences of adolescents and young adults.

Description:
Drawing on the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study, we examine effects of IPV on depression, documenting effects for young men and women. Findings on self-rated health parallel these results. Subsequent analyses that take into account other negative dynamics suggest that the latter are critical to an understanding of IPV effects. We also considered the role of IPV and relationship processes on stay/leave decisions. Findings highlight the need for a broader relationship-centered approach to understanding risk and effects of IPV on well-being.