Depressive symptomatology,self-esteem,and self-blame in battered women |
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Authors: | Michele Cascardi K. Daniel O'Leary |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11790, Stony Brook, New York
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Abstract: | Thirty three currently battered women who sought counseling/support services from a Nassau County, New York community agency that provides services to victims of domestic violence participated. Eighty-nine percent of the women experienced severe acts of physical abuse and 31% of the women required surgery or suffered concussions as a result of their injuries. Fifty-two percent of the women scored above 20 on the Beck Depression Inventory. As the number, form, and consequences of physically aggressive acts increased and/or worsened, the women's depressive symptoms increased and self-esteem decreased. However, only 12% of the women in this sample blamed themselves for causing their partner's violence. Further, neither self-blame nor partner blame was associated with length of abuse or the frequency and severity of physical aggression. However, self-blame was marginally associated with depressive symptomatology. |
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Keywords: | spouse abuse depression self-esteem |
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