Explaining the Relationship Between Insecure Attachment and Partner Abuse: The Role of Personality Characteristics

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3149-3170

  Buck, Nicole M L ^a   Leenaars, Ellie P E M ^b   Emmelkamp, Paul M G ^c,d   van Marle, Hjalmar J C ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Het Dok Forensic Psychiatric Outpatient and Day Treatment Center   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Forensic Outpatient Clinic De Waag   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attachment; batterers; intervention treatment; predicting domestic violence

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROL; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT RELATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; SEPARATION ANXIETY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PERSONALITY; REACTIVE ATTACHMENT DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867051809     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260512441258     Document Type: Article

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