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Violence against women and children is an acute problem worldwide, with 35.6% of women, and 30% to 50% of children experiencing physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. This violence not only negatively impacts the mental wellbeing of survivors, but is likely to contribute to further violence in the future, as chronic exposure to family violence has been strongly linked to both perpetration and revictimization tendencies in survivors’ adult relationships. Our study investigated intergenerational transmission of violence in Indian survivors of family violence through the lens of complex trauma. Our findings provide support for cultural validation of complex trauma theory, as the majority of participants experienced affective dysregulation, negative alterations in self-perception, and impairments in social relations. However, intergenerational transmission of violence did not occur in our sample. This may be due to the protective role played by internal contingencies of self-worth, and trauma-specific reflective functioning, which are novel findings from our study in relation to the study of complex trauma and intergenerational transmission of violence. |
