Responding in their best interests: Contextualizing women's coping with acquaintance sexual aggression

Violence Against Women

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 478-500

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping; Prevention; Sexual aggression

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; STUDENT; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; STUDENTS;

EID: 33646189811     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801206288104     Document Type: Article

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