Intimate partner violence (IPV) disproportionately affects women and has been linked to a range of negative psychological outcomes, including emotion dysregulation. Although IPV is often recurrent and tends to escalate in severity over time, few studies have examined the potential effects of recurrent experiences of IPV on emotion dysregulation. The current study employed a longitudinal design to examine the cumulative impact of recurrent experiences of IPV on emotion dysregulation. Participants were 491 young adult community women ( Mage = 21.74; 61.3% White, 35% African American/Black) who completed self-report measures of IPV and emotion dysregulation every 4 months for 28 months. Multilevel structural equation modeling techniques revealed that, at the within-person level, increases in cumulative IPV were associated with increases in global emotion dysregulation across the 28 months. In particular, the accumulation of IPV experiences over time was associated with increases in difficulties controlling impulsive behaviors when distressed and accessing effective emotion regulation strategies. At the between-person level, greater average cumulative IPV was associated with greater mean levels of global emotion dysregulation, as well as four specific dimensions of emotion dysregulation, including difficulties accepting emotional responses, accessing effective emotion regulation strategies, and both engaging in goal-directed behaviors and controlling impulsive behaviors when distressed. These findings suggest the potential cumulative impact of IPV on both global and more specific dimensions of emotion dysregulation. Results also highlight emotion dysregulation as a potentially important construct to assess and target in interventions for women experiencing recurrent IPV.

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亲密伴侣暴力反复经历对情绪失调的累积影响：一项纵向调查


亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）对女性的影响尤为严重，并与一系列负面心理后果有关，包括情绪失调。尽管 IPV 经常反复发作，并且严重程度往往会随着时间的推移而升级，但很少有研究探讨 IPV 反复经历对情绪失调的潜在影响。目前的研究采用纵向设计来检验反复经历 IPV 对情绪失调的累积影响。参与者是 491 名年轻的社区成年女性（法师 = 21.74；61.3% 白人，35% 非裔美国人/黑人），她们每 4 个月完成一次 IPV 和情绪失调的自我报告测量，持续 28 个月。多级结构方程建模技术表明，在人体内，累积 IPV 的增加与 28 个月内整体情绪失调的增加相关。特别是，随着时间的推移，IPV 经验的积累与在痛苦时控制冲动行为和获得有效的情绪调节策略的难度增加有关。在人与人之间的层面上，较高的平均累积 IPV 与较高的整体情绪失调平均水平以及情绪失调的四个具体维度相关，包括难以接受情绪反应、难以获得有效的情绪调节策略以及两者都参与目标-在痛苦时控制冲动行为并引导行为。这些发现表明 IPV 对情绪失调的整体和更具体的维度具有潜在的累积影响。结果还强调，情绪失调是评估和针对复发性 IPV 女性干预措施的潜在重要因素。