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    Predictors of Mother's Adjustment in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence
    (2015) Teixeira, Ana Isabel da Silva; Pinto, Ricardo José, orient.
    The purpose of this study was to address some factors described in literature that can influence the impact on the adjustment among women’s victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). We used as woman’s adjustment the dependent variables, psychopathology, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and salivary cortisol, and as influencers the independent variables, as social support, childhood adversity and perception of parenting competence. The study comprised 156 participants (n = 156), women’s victims of IPV. The sample included 75 (48.1%) women living with their partners and 81 (51.9%) women living in shelters. We used self-report questionnaires to assess psychopathology symptoms, PTSD symptoms, and social support perception, history of childhood adversity, and perception of parenting competence. We also used a salivary cortisol measure (cortisol awakening response). The hierarchical regression analyses, using the total psychopathology symptoms as outcome variable, demonstrated that sexual abuse, reassurance of worth scale and satisfaction were significant correlates in the final model, F(19, 136) = 6.66, p = .00, Cohen’s f 2 = .05. Linear hierarchical regression using PTSD as outcome variable showed that reassurance of worth scale and satisfaction were significant correlates in the final model, F(21, 135) = 5.44, p = .00, Cohen’s f 2 = .03. Logistic regression analyses using cortisol as outcome variable demonstrated that the full model was significantly reliable (χ2 = 12.961, p = .04). In general, we found that social support was a protective factor towards psychopathology and PTSD. Additionally, we found that childhood adversity can increase the risk for psychopathology symptoms, perception of parenting competence was negative associated with psychopathology and PTSD symptoms, and social support, childhood adversity and perception of parenting competence have not shown an influence on the cortisol.