Interactive and unique risk factors for husbands' emotional and physical abuse of their wives

Journal of Family Violence

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 315-344

  Margolin, Gayla ^a   John, Richard S ^a   Foo, Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Emotional abusiveness; Husbands; Physical abuse; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032350829     PISSN: 08857482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022880518367     Document Type: Article

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