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ABSTRACT
국문 초록
Contents
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 13
1.1. Study background 13
1.1.1. IPV as a long-term stressor and its mental health consequences 14
1.1.2. Heterogeneity in the effects of prolonged IPV 15
1.1.3. The context of South Korea 18
1.1.4. The present study 20
1.2. Literature review 22
1.3. Research aims 29
CHAPTER 2. METHODS 30
2.1. Data and study population 30
2.2. Measures 31
2.2.1. Dependent variable: depressive symptoms (CES-D) 31
2.2.2. Independent variable: prolonged IPV victimization 32
2.2.3. Moderator: gender, educational attainment, and intersectionality 34
2.2.4. Control variables 34
2.3. Data Analysis 35
2.4. Ethics 37
CHAPTER 3. RESULTS 38
CHAPTER 4. DISCUSSION 53
CHAPTER 5. CONCLUSION 61
REFERENCES 63
Table 1. Review of previous studies on health-related outcomes among Korean IPV victims 23
Table 2. Descriptive statistics, Korea Welfare Panel Study (KoWePS) 39
Table 3. Distribution of prolonged IPV victimization, by gender and education 42
Table 4. Association between prolonged IPV victimization and depressive symptoms, by gender and education 44
Table 5. Attrition weights: Regression models of prolonged IPV victimization and depressive symptoms 46
Table 6. Association between prolonged IPV victimization and depressive symptoms, by intersectional positions 49
Table 7. Robustness check: Association between prolonged IPV victimization and depressive symptoms, by gender and education (Logistic regression) 52
Figure 1. Searching keywords in English 22
Figure 2. Literature selection diagram 22
Figure 3. Flow diagram for study population 31
Figure 4. Operationalization of prolonged IPV across survey waves 34
Figure 5. Trajectory of depressive symptoms over time relative to prolonged IPV victimization, by intersectional positions 50