Women's Situational Coping With Acquaintance Sexual Assault: Applying an Appraisal-Based Model

Violence Against Women

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 450-478

  Nurius, Paula S ^a   Norris, Jeanette ^a   Macy, Rebecca J ^b   Huang, Bu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Rape; Resistance; Self defense; Sexual assault

Indexed keywords

EID: 2042510967     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204264367     Document Type: Review

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