Functional links between intimate partner violence and animal abuse: Personality features and representations of aggression

Society and Animals

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-242

  Gupta, Maya ^a  

^a Ahimsa House Safe Haven for Pets Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal abuse; Assault; Callous; Cruelty; Expressive; Instrumental; Intimate partner violence; Personality; Rejection sensitivity; Representations of aggression; Typology

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 50249142388     PISSN: 10631119     EISSN: 15685306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853008X323385     Document Type: Article

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