Being emotionally abused: A phenomenological study of adult women's experiences of emotionally abusive intimate partner relationships

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 237-245

  Queen, Josie ^a,b   Nurse, Army ^a   Brackley, Margaret H ^a   Williams, Gail B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UNITED STATES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MACHIAVELLIANISM; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; SPOUSE ABUSE;

EID: 68249107873     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840802701257     Document Type: Article

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