Differential Impact of College Women’s Psychological and Physical IPV Victimization on Fathering and Mental Health

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-24-2024

School

Child and Family Studies

Abstract

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is a public health problem that leaves lasting, distressing impacts on college women, yet little is known about the role fathers play as support for these women. The current study examines paternal warmth and involvement as mediators between physical and emotional IPV and emotional dysregulation and depression. Data were gathered from 201 female students that completed an online survey in exchange for extra credit. Using structural equation modeling, the indirect effect from physical abuse to emotional dysregulation and depressive symptoms were significant and positive. The indirect relationship between psychological abuse to emotional dysregulation and depressive symptoms through parental involvement were significant and negative, indicating that IPV typologies are differentially associated with perceptions of fathering. Implications from this study indicate the impact a father’s warmth and involvement can have on his daughter’s emotional regulation and depressive symptoms, as well as how psychological versus physical IPV may differentially impact fathering behavior.

Publication Title

Contemporary Family Therapy

Volume

47

Issue

1

First Page

129

Last Page

139

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