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Psychological abuse is not a problem! Exploring the role of domestic violence myths in psychological revictimization

Research provided evidence that IPV myths affect women’s acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships, increasing revictimization. However, no study to date has investigated how endorsement of IPV myths leads victims of psychological IPV to accept psychological aggression. In the...

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Autores principales: Cinquegrana, Vincenza, Marini, Maddalena, Galdi, Silvia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10587409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37868589
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1228822
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description Research provided evidence that IPV myths affect women’s acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships, increasing revictimization. However, no study to date has investigated how endorsement of IPV myths leads victims of psychological IPV to accept psychological aggression. In the present study (N = 207 young Italian women involved in heterosexual romantic relationships), we assessed acceptance of IPV myths, prevalence of psychological abuse (in the past 12 months), perception of the problematic nature, and acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships. Results showed that the effect of IPV myths on participants’ acceptance of psychological aggression was mediated by the tendency to consider psychological aggression as unproblematic. Notably, this effect was significant only for women who had experienced some form of psychological abuse by an intimate partner in the past 12 months. These findings have relevant implications for prevention strategies about risks of revictimization.
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spelling pubmed-105874092023-10-21 Psychological abuse is not a problem! Exploring the role of domestic violence myths in psychological revictimization Cinquegrana, Vincenza Marini, Maddalena Galdi, Silvia Front Psychol Psychology Research provided evidence that IPV myths affect women’s acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships, increasing revictimization. However, no study to date has investigated how endorsement of IPV myths leads victims of psychological IPV to accept psychological aggression. In the present study (N = 207 young Italian women involved in heterosexual romantic relationships), we assessed acceptance of IPV myths, prevalence of psychological abuse (in the past 12 months), perception of the problematic nature, and acceptance of psychological aggression in intimate relationships. Results showed that the effect of IPV myths on participants’ acceptance of psychological aggression was mediated by the tendency to consider psychological aggression as unproblematic. Notably, this effect was significant only for women who had experienced some form of psychological abuse by an intimate partner in the past 12 months. These findings have relevant implications for prevention strategies about risks of revictimization. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10587409/ /pubmed/37868589 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1228822 Text en Copyright © 2023 Cinquegrana, Marini and Galdi. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Psychological abuse is not a problem! Exploring the role of domestic violence myths in psychological revictimization
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title_short Psychological abuse is not a problem! Exploring the role of domestic violence myths in psychological revictimization
title_sort psychological abuse is not a problem! exploring the role of domestic violence myths in psychological revictimization
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10587409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37868589
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1228822
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