Citation

Banford AJ, Brown MD, Ketring SA, Mansfield TR. Am. J. Fam. Ther. 2014; 43(1): 84-96.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/01926187.2014.954491

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the presence of substance abuse, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, and mental illness in the home or family-of-origin is predictive of variance in current family violence perpetration. Additionally, a secondary purpose of this study was to examine whether mental health symptom distress and attachment style mediated the relationship between the presence of traumatic experiences in one's family-of-origin and current family violence perpetration. The results suggested that difficult family-of-origin experiences may predict variance in current family violence indirectly through mental health symptom distress and anxious attachment.