The relationship between battered women's causal attributions for violence and coping efforts

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 900-918

  Meyer, Alicia ^a   Wagner, Barry ^a   Dutton, Mary Ann ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributions; Coping; Domestic violence; Intimate partner violence

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; CONTROL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; BATTERED WOMEN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950119826     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260509336965     Document Type: Article

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