The role of resilience in the relationship between intimate partner violence severity and ICD-11 CPTSD severity

Fernández-Fillol, Carmen; Hidalgo-Ruzzante, Natalia; Perez-Garcia, Miguel; Hyland, Philip; Shevlin, Mark; Karatzias, Thanos

Abstract

Background: Resilience is a modulating factor in the development of PTSD and CPTSD after exposure to traumatic events. However, the relationship between resilience and ICD-11 CPTSD is not adequately understood in survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV).
Objective: The aim of this study is to determine whether resilience has a mediating role in the relationship between severity of violence and severity of CPTSD symptoms.
Method: A sample of 202 women IPV survivors completed self-rated questionnaires to assess CPTSD, severity of violence and resilience.
Results: Mediation analyses indicated that there was a direct relationship between the severity of violence and the severity of CPTSD symptoms (β = .113, p<.001) and that there was a significantly inverse relationship between levels of resilience and the severity of CPTSD symptoms (β = -.248, p<.001). At the same time, there was no significant relationship between the severity of violence and resilience (β = -.061, p = .254).
Conclusions: These findings suggest that resilience does not mediate the relationship between violence severity and CPTSD severity. Directions for future research are discussed.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 20, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Dec 29, 2023
• Publication Date: 2024
• Deposit Date: Oct 20, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 29, 2023
• Print ISSN: 2000-8198
• Publisher: Co-Action Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 2285671
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/20008066.2023.2285671
• Keywords: Resilience, CPTSD, Intimate Partner Violence
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3219566
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/zept20