Toward a Standard Approach to Operationalizing Coercive Control and Classifying Violence Types

Journal of Marriage and Family

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 833-843

  Hardesty, Jennifer L ^a   Crossman, Kimberly A ^a   Haselschwerdt, Megan L ^b   Raffaelli, Marcela ^a   Ogolsky, Brian G ^a   Johnson, Michael P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster analysis; Coercive control; Cutoff score; Divorce; Intimate partner violence; Measurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84935699607     PISSN: 00222445     EISSN: 17413737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jomf.12201     Document Type: Article

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