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An exploratory study on perceived danger, stress, anxiety, depression and coping in victims of domestic violence
Author
Nagaletchumi T. Jevaraza
Supervisor
Wong, Shyh Shin
Abstract
This study aims to investigate the relationship between domestic violence victims’ stress, anxiety, depression, perceived danger and coping. The participants were 31 female victims who applied for a Personal Protection Order (PPO) at the Family Justice Courts of Singapore. The participants completed the Brief Cope Scale, the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21(DASS-21), Danger Assessment and the Dialectical Stress Scale (DSS). The results showed that maladaptive coping was significantly associated with depression and stress. However maladaptive coping only showed a weak positive association with anxiety and perceived danger. In contrast, adaptive coping showed a weak negative association with stress, depression and perceived danger. In addition, adaptive coping showed a weak positive association with anxiety. As hypothesized, the results also showed a significantly strong positive correlation between stress and depression and stress and anxiety. Finally, the results also indicated a strong positive association between depression and anxiety. As coping is influenced by the person-environment transaction, victims’ coping has to be understood within the context of their personal and social resources, appraisal of danger/threat and mental health functioning. Hence it would be a clinical imperative that domestic violence victim’s coping is carefully evaluated within the ecological context of personal constraints, environmental constraints, cognitive appraisal and mental health functioning.
Date Issued
2015
Call Number
HV6626 Nag
Date Submitted
2015