Psychological abuse: Implications for adjustment and commitment to leave violent partners

Violence and Victims

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-67

  Arias, Ileana ^a,b   Pape, Karen T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY VIOLENCE; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EID: 0033000844     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.14.1.55     Document Type: Article

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