Atallah, Nabil2024-07-042024-07-042023Atallah, N. (2023). The Relationship between COVID-19 Lockdown and the Emotional Aspect of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among Lebanese Adults (SBS thesis, Haigazian University)https://doi.org/10.62811/th.0258https://haigrepository.haigazian.edu.lb/handle/123456789/300The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between COVID-19 lockdown and the emotional abuse among adult Lebanese intimate partners. Since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, several studies highlighted the impact on mental health due to the change imposed on individuals such as social distancing, lockdown, and movement/travel restrictions (Holmes et al. 2020, Layard et al. 2020). COVID-19 pandemic imposed on partners in intimate relationships the experience of multiple forms of external stressors that have destabilized their regular relationship pattern. (Pietromonaco & Overall, 2020). The Vulnerability-Stress Adaptation Model (VSAM), in which the pattern shows that the quality and stability of an intimate relationship among couples is affected directly by the couple’s ability to endure and adapt with stressful events such as COVID-19 lockdown. The quantitative nonexperimental cross-sectional survey design was used in the study. The Multidimensional Measure of Emotional Abuse (MMEA) and survey questionnaire were the instruments used in the process of conducting this research with 104 participants. Results showed that the numbers deviated more towards a negative attitude of the participants towards ending their intimate relationship with their partner during COVID-19 lockdown. The number of children showed to be a significant predictor in our data for the impression of participants about their partners’ emotionally abusive attitude towards them. There was no significant difference between both genders in the impression of participants about their emotionally abusive attitudes towards their partners during COVID-19 lockdown. We recommend to conduct further research on emotional abuse among intimate partners in Lebanon, including its prevalence, risk factors, and long-term effects.