Lonni Lee Garcia - 2023
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Publication Date
11-10-2023
Digital Publisher
Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
Disciplines
Higher Education
Keywords
Domestic violence, Intimate partner violence, Religion, PTSD
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Collection
McNair Scholars Symposium
Format
MOV
Medium
video
Description
Intimate partner violence is an ongoing public health issue and accounts for 15% of all violent crimes. 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experience severe intimate partner violence. This can lead to impacts such as injury, fearfulness, post-traumatic stress disorder, use of victim services, and contraction of sexually transmitted diseases. Research exploring the linkages between religion and PTSD has received limited attention. Data comes from the Nashville Stress and Health Study (2011–2014), a cross-sectional probability survey of black and white adults from Davidson County, Tennessee (n = 1,252). Results indicate that those with a high belief in divine control are expected to increase individual’s PTSD score. This study provides a fresh perspective on the links between partner violence and PTSD by (a) considering multiple religious and divine control variables and (b) focusing on the association between divine control and PTSD.
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Publisher
Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
City
San Antonio, Texas