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Memory In Adult Female Victims Of Intimate Partner Violence, Jill Waite
Memory In Adult Female Victims Of Intimate Partner Violence, Jill Waite
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a national and global health problem. Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization suggest that 1 in 3 women will become a victim of violence by an intimate partner in her lifetime. Memory and learning have been shown to be affected in in-vivo animal studies under acute and chronic stress conditions. Using Bertalanffy's general systems theory, this study examined the impact of IPV on short-term memory in adult female survivors by comparing their performance to a control group (adult females with no IPV in the past 5 years) on measures …