Research has documented that domestic violence increased worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies have also suggested that alcohol use, which also increased during COVID-19, is a risk factor for domestic violence victimization. However, research has yet to examine whether alcohol consumption mediated the relationship between pandemic-related stressful events and domestic violence. Using structural equation modeling, the current study examines the impact of three types of pandemic-related strains (financial problems, familial problems, and work problems) on individual assessments about whether their drinking became problematic during the pandemic and then whether problematic alcohol use increases the risk of psychological and physical domestic violence. This model was analyzed across six countries: Ukraine, The Netherlands, Pakistan, Denmark, Guatemala, and the United States. Results indicate that the associations between pandemic-related strains and self-assessed problematic drinking varied by country. However, across all countries, problematic alcohol consumption was associated with increased physical and psychological domestic violence victimization. Overall, the findings of the current study support the use of programs that aim to reduce problematic consumption of alcohol with the hopes that they may, in turn, reduce psychological and physical domestic violence victimization.

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六个国家有问题的饮酒对流行病相关菌株与家庭暴力之间关联的中介作用


研究表明，新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 疫情期间，全球范围内的家庭暴力有所增加。研究还表明，在新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 期间，饮酒量也有所增加，这是家庭暴力受害的一个危险因素。然而，研究尚未检验饮酒是否介导了与大流行相关的压力事件和家庭暴力之间的关系。目前的研究使用结构方程模型，检验了三种与大流行相关的压力（财务问题、家庭问题和工作问题）对个人评估的影响，即他们的饮酒是否在大流行期间成为问题，以及有问题的饮酒是否会增加心理和身体家庭暴力的风险。该模型在六个国家进行了分析：乌克兰、荷兰、巴基斯坦、丹麦、危地马拉和美国。结果表明，流行病相关菌株与自我评估的饮酒问题之间的关联因国家而异。然而，在所有国家，有问题的饮酒都与身体和心理家庭暴力受害人数的增加有关。总体而言，当前研究的结果支持使用旨在减少有问题的饮酒的计划，希望这些计划反过来可以减少心理和身体家庭暴力的受害者。