Racial discrimination, mental health symptoms, and intimate partner violence perpetration in Black adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study had three goals: (a) to examine the association between racial discrimination and intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration; (b) to determine whether this relationship is explained by mental health (MH) symptoms; and (c) to determine whether these associations vary by poverty status or gender.

Methods

During the Wave 4 (2013-2017) visit of the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity Longitudinal Study (HANDLS), Black adults who were in a relationship (N = 433; mean age = 55.26, SD = 9.30; 51% men) provided self-report data on IPV perpetration; frequency of racial discrimination; and levels of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress symptoms. Multigroup mediation models used these cross-sectional data to test whether racial disc

SUBMITTER: Maldonado AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9470245 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature