Research Project List
| Project Detail |
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| Title: Mental Health, Domestic Violence and Economic Insecurity |
| SSW Investigator(s): Taryn Lindhorst, PI. |
| Non-SSW Investigator(s): |
| Description: This Mentored Scientist Career Development (K01) award is designed to examine the longitudinal effects of poverty and domestic violence on women’s short-term and long-term mental health outcomes. Battered women are at risk for mental health disorders as a result of domestic violence. While some women are able to emotionally recover from the battering experience, other women have long-term disruption of their lives. The proposed research plan extends previous scholarship by determining whether material resources mediate the consequences of domestic violence on mental health outcomes. By examining the sequencing of stressful life events, this research will identify critical points in developmental trajectories related to mental health. The results from this study will identify life course sequences of risk and resilience that can illuminate causal pathways related to battered women's mental health. The findings from this research will be used to inform prevention and intervention services to at-risk women. |
| Funding Sources: NIMH Career Development (K01) Award |
| Start/End Dates: September 2005 through August 2010 |
