Beyond passivity: Dependency as a risk factor for intimate partner violence

Personality and Mental Health

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 12-21

  Kane, Fallon A ^a   Bornstein, Robert F ^a  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84956937363     PISSN: 19328621     EISSN: 1932863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmh.1322     Document Type: Article

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