Impelling and Inhibiting Forces in the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-207

  Finkel, Eli J ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aggression; domestic violence; impelling inhibiting model; intimate partner violence; self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548845356     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.11.2.193     Document Type: Article

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