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- Title
Does leaving an abusive partner lead to a decline in victimization?
- Authors
Ahmadabadi, Zohre; Najman, Jackob M; Williams, Gail M; Clavarino, Alexandra M; d'Abbs, Peter; Saiepour, Nargess
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>This paper investigates gender differences in persistence of intimate partner violence (IPV), for those remaining or leaving an abusive relationship. We followed a sample of males and females to examine whether leaving an abusive partner may alter the continuity of victimization.<bold>Methods: </bold>Data were taken from the 21 and 30-year follow-ups of the Mater Hospital and University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP) in Australia. A cohort of 1265 respondents, including 874 females and 391 males, completed a 21-item version of the Composite Abuse Scale.<bold>Results: </bold>We found proportionally similar rates of IPV victimization for males and females at both the 21 and 30 year follow-ups. Females who reported they had an abusive partner at the 21 year follow-up were more likely to subsequently change their partner than did males. Harassment and then emotional abuse appeared to have a stronger association for females leaving a partner. For males, a reported history of IPV was not significantly associated with leaving the partner. There was no significant association between leaving (or not) a previous abusive relationship and later victimization, either for male or female respondents.<bold>Conclusion: </bold>Changing a partner does not interrupt the continuity of victimization either for male or female respondents, and previous IPV victimization remained a determining factor of re-abuse, despite re-partnering.
- Publication
BMC Public Health, 2018, Vol 18, p404
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1186/s12889-018-5330-z