Forgiveness for intimate partner violence: The influence of victim and offender variables

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 653-664

  Tsang, Jo Ann ^a   Stanford, Matthew S ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Close relationships; Forgiveness; Intimate partner violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845490632     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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