We Are Not Joking: Need for Controls in Reports of Dating Violence

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 602-620

  Fernández González, Liria ^a   O'Leary, K Daniel ^b   Muñoz Rivas, Marina Julia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dating violence; intimate partner aggression; joking; self reports; social desirability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871486826     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260512455518     Document Type: Article

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