Family violence and depressive symptomatology among incarcerated women |
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Authors: | Sandra L. Martin Niki U. Cotten Dorothy C. Browne Brenda Kurz Elizabeth Robertson |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Maternal and Child Health, University of North Carolina, 27599-7400, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2. School of Social Work and Criminal Justice Program, Eastern Carolina University, 27834, Greenville, North Carolina 3. Family Economics Research Group, United States Department of Agriculture, Hyattsville, Maryland
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Abstract: | This study examines the potential association between witnessing parental violence as a child and later adult depressive symptomatology within a population that has received limited attention in the scientific literature, namely, incarcerated women. The Conflict Tactics Scale and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale were administered to 60 women incarcerated in a maximum security prison in North Carolina. A majority of the women reported that they had witnessed verbally aggressive or physically violent interactions among the adult members in their families. Seventy percent of these women suffered from clinically relevant levels of depressive symptomatology. Stepwise multiple linear regression analysis revealed that increasing levels of reasoning conflict resolution strategies used in the women's families of origin were associated with decreasing levels of depressive symptomatology of the women, whereas increasing levels of physically violent conflict resolution strategies were associated with increasing levels of depressive symptomatology. |
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Keywords: | depression family violence incarceration women |
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