Intimate Partner Violence: A Focus on Emotion Regulation
A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatric, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2024 | Viewed by 670
Special Issue Editors
Interests: family issues; intimate partner violence; stigma; psychological assessment; emotion regulation and alexithymia
Interests: intimate partner violence; women's health; trauma; post traumatic stress disorder; emotion regulation; stigma; secondary victimization; attachment theory
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) encompasses physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, along with controlling behaviors exerted by one partner towards another (WHO & PAHO, 2012). IPV can have detrimental effects on an individual's physical and psychological well-being. Regarding the latter, it can contribute to symptoms of anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse, and suicide attempts. Additionally, IPV can lead to the experience of painful emotions such as guilt, shame, and fear. In this context, emotion regulation, defined as the ability to effectively manage and modulate one's emotional experiences, appears to play a crucial role. Indeed, individuals with greater emotion regulation tend to exhibit higher psychological well-being. Despite this, many research questions remain unanswered. I therefore invite colleagues conducting research on IPV to submit articles addressing emotion regulation and related psychological constructs.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Emotion regulation;
- Trauma;
- Mental health issues (PTSD, depression, anxiety, etc.);
- Alexithymia.
Prof. Dr. Stefania Mannarini
Dr. Federica Taccini
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- intimate partner violence
- trauma
- abuse
- emotion regulation
- post-traumatic stress disorder
- assessment
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Planned Papers
The below list represents only planned manuscripts. Some of these manuscripts have not been received by the Editorial Office yet. Papers submitted to MDPI journals are subject to peer-review.
Title: The impact of trauma and substance use on emotion regulation and intimate partner violence perpetration: Implications for perpetrator programs
Author: Lila
Highlights: - Participants with ADUPs and trauma had higher emotion dysregulation and reported higher physical and psychological IPV than participants without such factors at pre-intervention
- At post-intervention, participants with ADUPs and trauma presented higher psychological IPV and risk of recidivism than the rest of the groups
- There is an urgent need to address ADUPs and trauma in perpetrator programs
