Coping with Intimate Partner Violence: Battered Women's Use and Perceived Helpfulness of Emotion-Focused Coping Strategies

Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-41

  Bauman, Emily M ^a   Haaga, David A F ^a   Dutton, Mary Ann ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Battered women; Clinical interventions; Coping; Intimate partner violence (IPV); Self efficacy

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; COOPERATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PREVALENCE;

EID: 69849118554     PISSN: 10926771     EISSN: 1545083X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10926770802250942     Document Type: Article

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