Intimate Partner Violence Summary

Influence of Imitate Partner Violence and Parenting Practices

Summary

The research explores the link between imitate partner violence, parenting practices, and the trauma symptoms in children. This area of study is important to observe so that psychologists are able to have some indication of factors that relate to children experiencing problems with stress, coping with trauma, perceiving threats, hyperarousal, avoidance, fear, security, interpersonal relationships, and negative self-attributions (Ehrensaft, Knous-Westfall, & Cohen, 2016). Also, this area is significant because psychologists can use the research to find methods to reduce the impacts of imitate partner violence on children psychologically and find which parenting practices

The study found that parents’ involvement in intimate partner violence predicted higher symptoms of trauma in offspring, but there were differences in association for mothers and fathers, which demonstrated mothers may be more directly relevant to child trauma symptoms (Ehrensaft, Knous-Westfall, & Cohen, 2016). Also, the study found that intimate partner violence predicted lower positive parenting and higher negative parenting (Ehrensaft, Knous-Westfall, & Cohen, 2016). This means that parents practice less child centering, less time was spent with the child, and they were not as close. It also means parents practice more dissatisfaction with the child, discipline, and perceived ineffectiveness. Another finding of the study, was that positive parenting would moderate the association of intimate partner violence with child trauma (Ehrensaft, Knous-Westfall, & Cohen, 2016). Overall, the research demonstrates that children being exposed to intimate partner violence between their parents may increase the risk of them experiencing trauma symptoms in future. Also, they are more susceptible to practicing negative parenting rather than positive parenting with their own children. Positive parenting may be able to moderate the association of inmate partner violence, but it does not necessarily work when inmate partner

The interviews and questionnaires were conducted at seven checkpoints over the course of the study. The interviews and questionnaires addressed demographic, psychiatric, and psychosocial factors, participants’ socioeconomic status, recent life changes, work history, aggressive behavior, intimate partner history, parenting practices, and stress.

The study found that children exposed to intimate partner violence between their parents may be at an increased risk for experiencing trauma symptoms in future. They are more prone to practicing negative parenting rather than positive parenting with their own children. The study also found that positive parenting may moderate children’s association with intimate partner violence.

The results from this study show that it is imperative that parents practice positive parenting and children not be exposed to situations where violence or abuse take places because these can cause profound effects on children psychologically, whether it is dealing with stress, coping with trauma, perceiving threats, hyperarousal, avoidance, fear, security, interpersonal relationships, and negative self-attributions. All of these things can follow and often do follow children into adulthood. Also, children may repeat the same cycle they experienced with their own