Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are some of the most common mental health symptoms women experience following exposure to dating violence (DV). However, not all women who experience DV exhibit PTSD symptoms. One factor that may influence whether or not women exhibit PTSD symptoms in the aftermath of DV exposure is interpersonal style, often operationalized in terms of two orthogonal dimensions, warmth and dominance. In this study, we examined the main and moderating effects of warmth and dominance on the association between DV and PTSD symptoms using latent moderating structural equation modeling in a sample of 303 female college students who reported DV exposure in the past year. Results indicated that warmth exerted a main effect predicting fewer PTSD symptoms. In addition, dominance moderated the association between DV and PTSD symptoms such that at high levels of DV, women who were high on dominance reported fewer PTSD symptoms than did women who were low on dominance. These findings suggest that aspects of interpersonal style may promote resilience to symptoms of posttraumatic stress following DV exposure. Directions for future research are also discussed.

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约会暴力女性受害者的人际交往风格和创伤后应激障碍症状。

创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）的症状是女性在约会暴力（DV）暴露后最常见的心理健康症状。但是，并非所有经历DV的女性都表现出PTSD症状。可能会影响女性在DV暴露后是否表现出PTSD症状的一个因素是人际交往风格，通常是从两个正交维度（即温暖和支配）角度进行操作。在这项研究中，我们使用潜伏性调节结构方程模型研究了303名女学生在过去一年中接触DV的情况，研究了温暖和支配对DV和PTSD症状之间关联的主要和调节作用。结果表明，温暖发挥主要作用，预测更少的PTSD症状。此外，优势控制了DV与PTSD症状之间的关联，因此，在DV水平较高时，优势较高的女性报告的PTSD症状要少于优势较低的女性。这些发现表明，人际交往方式的某些方面可能会促进DV暴露后对创伤后压力症状的适应能力。还讨论了未来研究的方向。