Citation

Clarke SB, Koenen KC, Taft CT, Street AE, King LA, King DW. J. Trauma. Stress 2007; 20(1): 97-101.

Affiliation

Women's Health Sciences Division, National Center for PTSD, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/jts.20193

PMID

17345649

Abstract

The present study examined the relationship between intimate partner psychological aggression and children's behavior problems in a community sample of families (N = 470 children). The results showed that psychological aggression experienced by the mother has adverse effects on children's externalizing and internalizing behavior problems over and above the effects of physical aggression. The association between psychological aggression and child behavior problems was partially mediated by maternal distress. Exposure to psychological aggression appears to have unique direct and indirect adverse effects on children.

Language: en