Journal Article

Perceived Quality of Life and Health Complaints in Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

Axberg, Ulf, Almqvist, Kjerstin, Broberg, Anders G., Grip, Karin K.

2014

Overview

Children 9 to 13 years old exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) reported on their violence exposure, attachment to both parents, temperament (negative emotionality and emotion regulation), perceived quality of life, and health complaints. Half of the children perceived their quality of life as good and did not have recurrent health complaints. When controlling for socioeconomic status, health complaints were associated with higher IPV exposure and negative emotionality, whereas quality of life was associated with attachment security, higher capacity for emotion regulation, and lower negative emotionality. These results underscore the importance of increasing and supporting the capacity of children exposed to IPV to handle and express their emotions, as well as making school nurses and other primary care practitioners more attentive to IPV as a possible background factor in children’s health complaints.

• Publisher: Springer US,Springer,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Applied Psychology / Attachment / Children / Children & youth / Childrens health / Clinical Psychology / Complaints / Criminology and Criminal Justice / Domestic violence / Emotion regulation / Emotional regulation / Emotionality / Emotions / Family violence / Health / Health aspects / Health Care Services / Health complaints / Health education / Health status / Intimate partner violence / Law and Psychology / Male-female relationships / Marital satisfaction / Medicine / Medicine & Public Health / Negative emotionality / Nurses / Parent and child / Partner Abuse / Perceptions / Primary care / Primary Health Care / Psychological aspects / Psychological factors / Psychologically abused children / Psychology / Psychotherapy and Counseling / Psykologi / Quality of Life / Quality of Life Research / Recurrent / Research on Children's Exposure to Ipv / s Quality of life / School nurses / Social Work / Socialt arbete / Socioeconomic Status / Subjective health / Subjective health Health complaint / Temperament / Tillämpad psykologi / Violence / Well-being / Women's health