The coping window: A contextual understanding of the methods women use to cope with battering

Violence and Victims

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-28

  Smith, Paige Hall ^a   Murray, Christine E ^a   Coker, Ann L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Battered women; Coping; Domestic violence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; CONFLICT; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; VICTIM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BATTERED WOMEN; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 77049086860     PISSN: 08866708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1891/0886-6708.25.1.18     Document Type: Article

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