Demographic, Psychosocial, and Personality Characteristics of Lesbian Batterers

Violence and Victims

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 557-568

  Fortunata, Blaise ^a   Kohn, Carolynn S ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONFLICT TACTICS SCALE; DELUSION; DEMOGRAPHY; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EMPLOYMENT; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LESBIAN; MICHIGAN ALCOHOL SCREENING TEST; MILLON CLINICAL MULTIAXIAL INVENTORY; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RACE; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

EID: 0347354701     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/vivi.2003.18.5.557     Document Type: Article

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