Psychological abuse of women: Six distinct clusters

Marshall, Linda L.

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“…Yet, perception of social support from friends (rather than parents) was related to lower bulimic propensities. The reasons for this differential pattern of results are uncertain, but the reasons may be linked to the often ambiguous nature of psychological aggression (Marshall, 1996), such that women may be more likely to turn inward to contend with their distress (Coffey, Leitenberg, Henning, Bennett, & Jankowski, 1996;Katz et al, 1997). In this instance, friends may not serve a direct supportive function vis a vis the abuse, but rather may provide a basis for active distraction or disengagement from the stressful situation and thus, attenuate the severity of the symptomatic bulimic behaviors that women adopt.…”

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The Buffering Role of Social Support Perceptions in Relation to Eating Disturbances among Women in Abusive Dating Relationships

2006

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Abuse is often associated with diminished social support networks, which typically serve to buffer individuals against stress-related outcomes, including eating disorders. The goal of the present study was to examine whether eating disturbances among women in abusive dating relationships varied as function of perceived social support. Although both physical and psychological aggression in women's (N=83) dating relationships was associated with symptomatic dieting and bulimic symptoms, only psychological aggression predicted unique variance. Although psychological aggression was directly related to eating symptoms, support from friends diminished the relation to bulimic symptoms, possibly because such support facilitated women's ability to distract themselves from their abusive situations. In contrast, perceived parental support buffered women in physically abusive relationships from disturbed eating patterns. Thus, depending on the nature of abuse women experienced, social support resources were differentially effective in buffering women from eating disturbances.

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The Buffering Role of Social Support Perceptions in Relation to Eating Disturbances among Women in Abusive Dating Relationships

2006

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“…This distinction theoretically contextualizes aggression in community samples (typically situational couple violence) in relation to more traditional notions of domestic violence (i.e., intimate terrorism), and underscores the importance of examining both husband and wife aggression. This study will also examine emotional or psychological aggression, which some women have reported being even more upsetting than physical abuse they have experienced (Follingstad, et al, 1990), which causes harm, even in the absence of physical aggression (Marshal, 1996;Pico-Alfonso et al, 2006;Taft et al, 2006), and which victims have identified as a primary variable in the assessment of their safety (Cattaneo, 2007). Although most research on emotional aggression has focused on female victims, consistent gender differences have not been found (Coker, et al, 2002;Hamby & Sugarman, 1999;Hines & Saudino, 2003;Swan & Snow, 2002).…”

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Trajectories of Physical and Emotional Marital Aggression in Midlife Couples

Vickerman¹,

Margolin²

2008

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This study uses three-level generalized Hierarchical Linear Modeling to examine trajectories of husbands' and wives' physical and emotional aggression over three assessments and the effects of years since marriage. In this community sample of 118 couples, physical aggression significantly decreased over time (43% per year). Emotional aggression did not significantly change over time, but trajectories significantly differed for husbands (3% increase) versus wives (10% decrease). Longer duration marriages had lower physical aggression and, for wives only, lower emotional aggression. Aggression trajectories showed considerable variability: 44-55% of physically aggressive spouses desisted from one assessment to the next; 5-12% reported start-ups in physical aggression. Discussion addresses the role of gender and type of aggression in aggression trajectories. Keywordsintimate partner violence; psychological aggression; spousal abuse; growth curve analysis; longitudinal change Data on the prevalence, incidence, and seriousness of intimate partner violence call attention to the importance of understanding trajectories of partner violence. Estimates indicate 25% of women and 8% of men are physically assaulted or raped by an intimate partner at some time during their life (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Other samples reveal that as many as 21% of couples report intimate physical aggression each year (McDonald, Jouriles, Ramisetty-Mikler, Caetano, & Green, 2006). Research has shown that intimate relationship aggression has deleterious mental and physical health consequences for women (Bonomi et al, 2006;Coker, et al., 2002;Loxton, Schofield, & Hussain, 2006), as well as some negative health consequences for men (Coker, et al., 2002;Simonelli & Ingram, 1998;Taft et al, 2006). Assessments of intimate physical aggression based on lifetime incidence or 12-month prevalence data fail to capture the variability in partner aggression across time, particularly for couples in long-term relationships. The present study examines husbands' and wives' use of relationship aggression over three time points, providing information about the stability and trajectory of aggression, while calling attention to the potential fallibility of defining a couple as aggressive based on one time point. The study also examines the impact of years since marriage on aggression trajectories, thereby accounting for stage in relationship development on aggression.Although female victims are often the focus of intimate violence research, the considerable rates of aggression towards men (e.g. Archer, 2000) suggest the need to evaluate both male and female aggression. Clearly women suffer more severe consequences due to partner Address correspondence to: Katrina Vickerman, Department of Psychology, SGM 930, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089-1061 or email: E-mail: vickerma@usc.edu. (Archer, 2000;Holtzworth-Munroe, Smutzler, & Bates, 1997) and the context of and motivations for female perpetrated aggression may be different (Swan & Snow, ...

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“…Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine several potential correlates of engagement and disengagement coping. Although no published study has comprehensively examined the correlates of the coping variables of interest among battered women, some work within the general coping and domestic violence literatures suggest the potential importance of (a) abuse-related factors, (b) socioeconomic and social coping resources, and (c) childhood trauma (Holahan & Moos, 1987;Mitchell & Hodson, 1986;Waldrop & Resick, 2004).There is evidence from samples of battered women that higher levels of abuse are positively associated with the use of both engagement Jacobson, Gottman, Gortner, Berns, & Shortt, 1996;Marshall, 1996;Strube, 1988) and disengagement (Mitchell & Hodson, 1983) forms of coping. However, validated measures of these forms of coping have rarely been used, and few studies have assessed the impacts of psychological aggression or intimate partner sexual aggression in addition to physical assault.…”

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Examining the Correlates of Engagement and Disengagement Coping Among Help-Seeking Battered Women

Taft¹,

Resick²,

Panuzio³

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Psychological abuse of women: Six distinct clusters

Abstract: This study was designed to identify patterns of psychological abuse (abuse) and determine whether different patterns

Cited by 104 publications

References 52 publications

The Buffering Role of Social Support Perceptions in Relation to Eating Disturbances among Women in Abusive Dating Relationships

The Buffering Role of Social Support Perceptions in Relation to Eating Disturbances among Women in Abusive Dating Relationships

Trajectories of Physical and Emotional Marital Aggression in Midlife Couples

Examining the Correlates of Engagement and Disengagement Coping Among Help-Seeking Battered Women

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