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15th European Congress of Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 11 - 14 July 2017, pp.132, (Summary Text)
Early life experiences have been found to be a strong predictor of adulthood intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization in studies with different cultures including Turkey. Young Schema Therapy Model (YSTM) is a comprehensive and sensitive way of operationalizing negative early life experiences. Current study aims to predict different decisions of IPV victim and non-victim women with regard to relationship continuity from YSTM perspective. Data from 158 IPV victim (79 applied to domestic violence shelters to leave their relationship [leave group] and 79 decided to continue their marriage [stay group]) and 78 non-victim women were analyzed. A demographics form, Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form (YSQ-SF), Young Parenting Inventory-maternal and paternal forms (YPI-MF and YPI-PF), Young Compensation Inventory (YCI) and Young-Rygh Avoidance Inventory (YRAI) were used to predict victimization and stay-leave decision differences. A multinomial regression could not be carried because of low sample size. For binary regression analyses predicting either occurrence of IPV or stay-leave decision, YPI-PF or YSQ were the only significant predictors along with constant in the equation, respectively. Data were further clustered based on combinations of different violence experiences to rule out significance of constant; hence unexplained variance. YPI-PF was the only significant predictor of existence of psychological or verbal-sexual-economic violence along with physical violence in stay group. Predictions in the other groups were non-significant. The results of the current and former analyses reveal the importance of data scrutiny in IPV research. Any violence type should be treated either separately and combinations specific to data set should be examined.