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The process through which an advocacy intervention resulted in positive change for battered women over time

Journal

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 103-132

Publisher

WILEY
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014376202459

Keywords

domestic violence; battered women; longitudinal structural equation modeling; tests of mediation

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  1. NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH44849] Funding Source: Medline

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A prior experimental evaluation of a community-based advocacy program for women with abusive partners demonstrated positive change in the lives of women even 2 years postintervention (C. M. Sullivan & D. I. Bybee, 1999). The current study explored the complex mediational process through which this change occurred, using longitudinal structural equation modeling and formal tests of mediation. As hypothesized, the advocacy intervention first resulted in women successfully obtaining desired community resources and increasing their social support, which enhanced their overall quality of life. This improvement in well-being appeared to serve as a protective factor from subsequent abuse, as women who received the intervention here significantly less likely to be abused at 2-year follow-up compared with women in the control condition. Increased quality of life completely mediated the impact of the advocacy intervention on later reabuse. Discussion places advocacy for women in the context of other efforts that are needed to build an effective community response to preventing intimate violence against women.

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