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JOURNAL OF FAMILY VIOLENCE
Volume 26, Issue 4, Pages 255-261Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10896-011-9361-9
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Intimate partner violence; Work interference; Childhood maltreatment; Employment
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This study examined the long-term effects of childhood maltreatment, intimate partner violence (IPV) and work interference on women's employment in a sample of 135 housed or homeless women. Work interference (defined as a partner's interference with or restraint of a woman's working) was reported by 60% of women who had experienced IPV and was more common among non-Hispanic White women. Abuse history of any type was not predictive of women's employment or receiving job training, but child sexual abuse history and lifetime IPV were predictive of non-Hispanic White women's not looking for a job. Receiving job training was negatively correlated with women's current mental health. The study suggests different but overlapping pathways to the outcome of underemployment for racial/ethnic minority and majority women-namely, macro level factors and individual vulnerability factors, respectively. The need for trauma-informed services for unemployed and/or homeless women is highlighted.
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