Exploring the relationship between childhood maltreatment and intimate partner abuse: Gender differences in the mediating role of emotion dysregulation

Violence and Victims

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 68-82

  Gratz, Kim L ^a,c   Paulson, Autumn ^a   Jakupcak, Matthew ^b   Tull, Matthew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Geriatic Research Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) VA Puget Sound Health Care System   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood abuse; Childhood neglect; Emotion regulation; Intimate partner violence; Perpetration

Indexed keywords

EID: 60849109944     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.24.1.68     Document Type: Article

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