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We present a qualitative study of battered women, which examined their experiences while staying at shelters. In-depth, semi-structured
interviews were conducted with 18 battered women staying at shelters. The interviews elicited four main themes: the women’s
perceptions of the shelter; the woman’s perceptions of herself and her life experiences; the woman’s perceptions of her relations
with other battered women at the shelter; and the woman’s perceptions of her relations with the staff of the shelter. The
paper concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the study, implications for future research, implications for theory
development, and implications for therapy and intervention with the problem of wife battering. 相似文献
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This study explores how women’s functional limitations resulting from domestic violence lead to police involvement. Examining
functionality is a broader approach to exploring domestic violence outcomes than looking at injuries or impairments, and in
this study we look at the social participation aspects of social functioning. One hundred eleven battered women in four metropolitan
cities in the U.S. participated in anonymous telephone surveys. Approximately 80% of the battered women in the sample were
involved with the police due to their experiences of domestic violence. Women’s functionality was significantly associated
with battered women’s police involvement after controlling for socio-demographic and violence-related covariates. The current
study identifies one aspect of women’s functioning–social participation–as a critical predictor of their seeking of help from
the police, and suggests implications for practice, including the need for police and domestic violence agencies to have awareness
of the concept of functional limitations within a broader context of understanding disability. 相似文献
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The majority of women entering battered women’s shelters bring children with them and those children often require specialized
programs that address the ways in which witnessing domestic violence has affected them. Several programs have been developed
and implemented; however, few have been empirically evaluated. The current article critically examines several intervention
strategies and their effectiveness. Barriers to service are also identified. Although there is a paucity of research in this
area, the present review suggests that intervening with children may show promise for breaking the cycle of violence. 相似文献
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Few studies have examined the adjustment of battered women and their children after exiting domestic violence shelters. Participants were 62 women who had endured severe partner abuse, completed a shelter program with their children, and resided in the community for at least 6 months. Field interviews concerned mothers' and children's abuse histories and included measures of maternal depression, maternal trauma, and child behavior problems. Nearly all women had lived violence free since shelter exit. Child internalizing behaviors were associated with direct abuse, maternal depression, and shelter program. Externalizing behaviors were related to maternal depression and shelter program. Neither severity of interparental violence nor maternal trauma symptoms was related to child behavior problems. Mothers' family of-origin abuse predicted current satisfaction with child functioning, beyond the effects of maternal depression and child behavioral problems. Findings suggest a need for postshelter therapeutic services and further research addressing the adjustment of such families. 相似文献
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Children exposed to intimate partner violence are known to experience a number of negative outcomes, including behavioral
and emotional problems; however, possible mechanisms accounting for this relationship are unclear. There is considerable evidence
that parenting stress has a direct effect on child adjustment problems and on parenting behaviors; parenting behaviors, in
turn, have been repeatedly shown to be related to child outcomes. The hypothesis that parenting mediates the relationship
between parenting stress and child behavioral and emotional problems according to Abidin’s (Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 21:407–412, 1992) model was tested in a sample of 190 battered women and their 4-to12-year-old children. No support for
mediation was found for either mother- or child-reported outcomes. Parenting stress had a strong direct effect on child behavioral
and emotional problems. These findings have implications for the viability of Abidin’s model, as well as for interventions
with battered women that address parenting stress.
The authors would like to thank the women, children, and staff at the shelters for battered women who participated in this
study. 相似文献
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Diana Bilimoria Susan R. Perry Xiangfen Liang Eleanor Palo Stoller Patricia Higgins Cyrus Taylor 《The Journal of Technology Transfer》2006,31(3):355-365
In this study we examine how a sample of 248 male and female professors at a Midwestern private research university construct
their academic job satisfaction. Our findings indicate that both women and men perceive that their job satisfaction is influenced
by the institutional leadership and mentoring they receive, but only as mediated by the two key academic processes of access
to internal academic resources (including research-supportive workloads) and internal relational supports from a collegial
and inclusive immediate work environment. Gender differences emerged in the strengths of the perceived paths leading to satisfaction:
women’s job satisfaction derived more from their perceptions of the internal relational supports than the academic resources
they received, whereas men’s job satisfaction resulted equally from their perceptions of internal academic resources and internal
relational supports received. Implications for leadership and institutional practices are drawn from the findings. 相似文献
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Maura O'Keefe 《Journal of family violence》1997,12(1):1-19
The present study compared battered women incarcerated for killing/seriously assaulting their abusers with battered women incarcerated for other offenses to explore possible similarities and differences in the characteristics and experiences of the two groups as well as to determine what factors may lead some battered women to use lethal force against their partners. Comparisons were made on a number of variables including sociodemographic factors, characteristics of the battering relationship, alcohol/drug use of battered women and their abusers, perceived social support, actions taken to end the violence, prior criminal behaviors, and childhood trauma factors. Findings revealed that women in the homicide/assault group were older, in the relationship longer and experienced a longer duration of violence in this relationship. They also experienced more frequent and severe battering, including sex assaults and sustained more injuries than those in the comparison group. Further, battered women who killed/seriously assaulted their partners were more likely to believe that their lives were in danger, were less likely to use violence against their partners, and were less likely to have a prior criminal record or to have served time previously. The implications of the findings are discussed. 相似文献
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The paper presents a study conducted among 173 Turkish medical students, which examined their beliefs about wife beating through
a self-administered questionnaire. An integrative conceptual framework was tested as the basis for explaining the students’
beliefs. The results revealed that between 4.5 and 38.7% of the participants justified wife beating, between 3.5 and 5.3%
of them tended to believe that battered women benefit from beating, and between 4.7 and 28.5% of them tended to believe that
battered women are responsible for their beating. In addition, between 68.4 and 90.6% of the students expressed willingness
to help battered women, and although nearly half of them perceived the violent husbands as responsible for their behavior,
only about one-quarter of them supported punishing violent husbands. The results also indicate that significant amounts of
the variance in students’ beliefs about wife beating can be attributed to their patriarchal ideology toward family life and
to their exposure to family violence during childhood and adolescence. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications
of the results for future research, theory development, and training of medical students.
Both authors contributed equally to this paper. The order of the names does not indicate seniority of either author. 相似文献
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The aim of this study was to investigate forces that affect the timing of women's exit from violent relationships with men. Abused women were recruited from posters in the community and battered women's shelters, interviewed, and followed up for 10 years. Data for this study are based on 100 women and were analyzed using event history analysis. Age, ethnicity, and alcohol consumption levels of both partners predicted the timing of women's termination of abusive relationships. An interaction effect showed that women who scored above the mean on an index of physical aggression and who never used shelter services had the longest trajectories of violence exposure; severely abused women without shelter use were more likely to stay. Our findings indicate that women who receive shelter services endure shorter periods of violence than women who do not access such services. Further outreach, especially to women experiencing high rates of physical aggression, is recommended. 相似文献
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Constructing Women Who Experience Male Violence: Criminal Legal Discourse and Individual Experiences
Helen Baker 《Liverpool Law Review》2008,29(2):123-142
This article examines the relationship between how women who experience violence from a male partner construct themselves,
and how criminal legal discourse constructs female victims of violence. It is argued that in both arenas, women are constructed
according to norms which emanate from a discourse of conventional femininity which operates together with a practice of shame.
Utilising empirical data gained from qualitative interviews with women who experienced male violence, the article contends
that the construction of the female victim of violence in criminal legal discourses as imbued with stereotypical ‘feminine’
characteristics such as passivity and weakness, may influence these women’s own construction and understanding of themselves.
The existence of a practice of shame further consolidates the self-regulation of the women themselves to these norms of femininity.
This construction is posited to be problematic as the experiences of women of male violence rarely ‘fit’ within these explanations.
The article contends that in order to better understand women’s experiences of male violence; both criminal legal and individual
women’s discourses need to be read in terms of the power, knowledge and effects which they exert upon individual women. It
is argued that this alternative reading of these discourses has the potential for transformation as they are invested in the
subject.
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Helen BakerEmail: |
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Kim B Titterington VB 《International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology》2009,53(1):93-112
This study compares two groups of women in South Korea: one group incarcerated for the deaths of their male partners and the other staying in a shelter for battered women. The analysis serves to answer two questions: First, are the findings regarding women who kill their intimate partners in Western societies generally applicable to their counterparts in South Korea? Second, how are abused South Korean women who resort to lethal violence against their abusers different from those who do not? Regarding both abused and nonabused women incarcerated for criminal homicide against their partners, results indicate that they have less experience of psychological and physical abuse by their partners and that they are less educated, underemployed, and more supportive of traditional patriarchal norms than are the women who utilize domestic violence shelters. This research explores implications for intervention strategies to encourage abused women to seek help from legal and extralegal sources. 相似文献
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Rebecca Weston 《Journal of family violence》2008,23(6):483-493
Men’s emotional abuse and violence have a broad and pervasive impact on women that may include long-term effects on women’s
attachment and relationship quality. In this longitudinal study, women’s Wave 6 ratings of their insecure attachment were
hypothesized to mediate the relationship between partners’ Wave 5 abuse (emotional and physical) and Wave 6 relationship quality,
with differences in associations by women’s Wave 5 self-classification as secure or insecure. Mediation was tested with data
from a sample of 574 African American, Euro-American, and Mexican American community women who had completed at least three
waves of a six wave study. Differences occurred in the final structural equation models by women’s Wave 5 attachment style,
with direct paths from emotional abuse to insecure attachment and from violence to relationship quality for both groups, but
direct effects of violence on relationship quality only for insecurely attached women. 相似文献
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Using multi-staged methods developed in this research for coding/analysis of interview data, this article portrays women’s
reported experiences of participation, performance, and advancement in academic science and engineering in a major technological
institution. The methods and findings have implications for understanding the complexity underlying women’s participation
and performance, and for practices and policies to support advancement of women faculty, particularly those in research universities. 相似文献
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We replicate and extend research using the Investment Model (Rusbult, 1980, J. Exp. Social Psychol., 45, 101–117) to understand battered women's commitment to abusive relationships. The Investment Model is a nonpathologizing theory that views commitment as a function of one's satisfaction with, alternatives to, and investments in the relationship. These factors were examined in a shelter-based sample of battered women. Investment model variables, particularly satisfaction, were also examined as mediators of the relationship between abuse exposure and commitment. Both Investment Model and abuse exposure constructs were assessed using instruments more fully developed than in previous research. Results indicated that each of the Investment Model factors contributed uniquely to women's commitment, and that relationship satisfaction mediated the relationship between psychological (but not physical) abuse and commitment. Implications for future research and intervention are discussed.
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Deborah L. RhatiganEmail: |
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Pamela C. Alexander 《Journal of family violence》2011,26(4):255-261
This study examined the long-term effects of childhood maltreatment, intimate partner violence (IPV) and work interference
on women’s employment in a sample of 135 housed or homeless women. Work interference (defined as a partner’s interference
with or restraint of a woman’s working) was reported by 60% of women who had experienced IPV and was more common among non-Hispanic
White women. Abuse history of any type was not predictive of women’s employment or receiving job training, but child sexual
abuse history and lifetime IPV were predictive of non-Hispanic White women’s not looking for a job. Receiving job training
was negatively correlated with women’s current mental health. The study suggests different but overlapping pathways to the
outcome of underemployment for racial/ethnic minority and majority women—namely, macro level factors and individual vulnerability
factors, respectively. The need for trauma-informed services for unemployed and/or homeless women is highlighted. 相似文献
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Krim K. Lacey 《Journal of family violence》2010,25(7):669-677
Based upon a subsample from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) this article examines the role of socioeconomic
status, relationship investment and psychological abuse in Black and Hispanic women’s decisions to leave or stay in violent
relationships. Racial and ethnic differences and similarities were found in the factors related to staying or leaving violent
relationships. Black women stayed in violent relationships at a slightly higher rate than Hispanic women. Marital status,
presence of other adults in the household, and psychological abuse influenced Black women’s staying/leaving decision. Household
income and psychological abuse were factors in whether Hispanic women remained in or exited violent relationships. Recommendations
for possible interventions are discussed. 相似文献
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Learned helplessness (LH) may mediate the link between violence exposure and mental disorders in battered women. This study
evaluated the contribution of LH to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and major depression (MDD) in women with prolonged
exposure to partner violence in 101 residents of shelters for battered women in Israel. DSM-IV axis-I disorders were assessed
by a structured clinical interview. Self-report questionnaires evaluated exposure to violence, symptoms of PTSD and depression,
LH, history of child abuse, SES and the extent of male-dominance and prejudice against women in the participants prior socialization
background. LH significantly mediated the effect of violence on PTSD and depression symptoms. Male-dominated background contributed
to LH. Thus, LH may increase the risk of mental disorders in battered women and should be addressed in interventions designed
to reduce the burden of mental illness in this population. 相似文献
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Lyungai F. Mbilinyi Jeffrey L. Edleson Annelies K. Hagemeister Sandra K. Beeman 《Journal of family violence》2007,22(5):309-317
This article presents results of a study examining what happens to children when domestic violence is committed against their
mothers. While many investigations have pointed to child exposure to violence in homes where women are battered, few have
examined direct reports about what happens to children when adult domestic violence occurs. This study collected direct reports
from mothers on real-life events and was designed to go beyond earlier research by eliciting information on a larger array
of family and contextual factors that may account for variation in mother’s and their children’s direct and indirect exposure
to violence within the same home. Anonymous telephone interviews with 111 battered mothers in four metropolitan areas across
the United States elicited detailed information from women on the violence against them and their children. Findings confirm
the seriousness of co-occurring mother and child exposure to violence. The research also revealed that women and children
were often injured while trying to protect each other from the abuser. The article concludes by recommending further enhancing
collaboration between child protection and battered women’s services; augmenting prevention and early intervention services
to families experiencing adult domestic violence; and focusing on protecting and increasing the safety of both children and their battered mothers.
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Jeffrey L. EdlesonEmail: |