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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Abusive relationships"”.
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Effect of Received Social Support on Battered Women's Commitment to their Abusive Relationships
… social support and women's commitment to an abusive relationship for the purpose of informing social support interventions. This study was not an intervention; instead, it sought to examine the processes linking receipt of helpful forms of social support from naturally occurring sources with …
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Cultural and other constraints in help seeking with abusive relationships : the narratives of Xhosa-speaking women
… experiences of Xhosa married women who are in abusive relationships and have sought help in a counselling organisation. It traces their path of seeking help before they reached the women's counselling centre. The study was conducted by holding in-depth interviews with eight women who live in a …
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A study of psychological abuse of women in marriage
… backgrounds, who were or are in psychologically abusive relationships. Moving beyond previous definitions, psychological abuse was explained as domination, oppression, unrealistic expectations, and verbal attacking or silent withdrawal within a relationship characterized by almost no emotional …
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Positive Self-Talk Statements as a Self-Esteem Building Technique among Female Survivors of Abuse.
… the relationship between and among females in abusive relationships, self-esteem, and positive self-talk. Various models are discussed that provide possible explanations in the understanding of the complex social and psychological nature of cyclic abuse. These models are: learned helplessness, …
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Battered women: Exploring motivating factors to leave or remain in violent relationships
… motivating women to leave or remain in violent relationships from an interactionist perspective. Literature reviewed will integrate gender socialization and labeling with studies on domestic violence to investigate a woman's role in becoming a victim and her responses to violent relationships. …
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Explorations of resilience in women who experience domestically violent relationships
… perspective as to why women often remain in abusive relationships. Furthermore, the rationale of the thesis is to contest the notion that women who remain in domestically violent relationships do so for underlying pathological reasons.
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Women abuse : exploring women's narratives of violence and resistance in Mitchell's Plain
… violence. This study focused on how women endure abusive relationships by examining how women construct and give meaning to their experiences, within a particular socio-cultural context. Interviews were conducted with 15 participants who volunteered participation in response to advertisements. All …
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Transforming 'selves': a narrative analysis of South African shelter residents' stories of leaving abusive heterosexual relationships
… that explores women's experiences ofleaving abusive relationships, especially within the context of women's shelters. This study looks at the process of disengaging from abusive relationships. It has examined women's experiences of leaving within the context of these shelters. In-depth …
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An Ye Harm None
… Meanwhile, Kes, fresh from two borderline-abusive relationships, enters into a relationship with Dark, a fellow pagan respected in the community, who has childhood issues of his own. The novel explores themes of friendship, religion, community, and domestic violence.
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Pinky's Dance Hall
… can mirror the patterns of other types of abusive relationships.</p>
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Predictors and Consequences of Decision Making in Domestic Violence
… to 75% of women choose to remain in or return to abusive relationships, a decision that represents significant barriers towards the provision of support, a wider understanding, and criminal justice engagement. This study aimed to explore predictors and consequences of decisions to leave and return …
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Aggression In Lesbian And Bisexual Relationships
… some if the dynamics that are unique to same-sex abusive relationships. Patterns of abuse within same-sex relationships often mirror those that are so commonly associated with partner aggression among heterosexual couples, and therefore demonstrate not only the need for further research on the …
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A qualitative study of five women's experiences of abuse by an intimate male partner
… psychological abuse? Why does she stay in the abusive relationship? To gain more understanding of this complex dynamic, a qualitative study of five women's experiences of violence by an intimate partner was performed. The first part of this paper, a literature review, examines women's accounts …
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Demographic and Mental Health Predictors for Abusive Relationship Duration among Women Seeking Help for Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): A Multivariate Model
… on what determines how long women stay in abusive relationships. This study examines the associations between IPV duration and other abuse-related variables in a sample of help-seeking women at an outpatient counseling center affiliated with a local domestic violence agency (n = 230). Data …
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An Ethnographic Study of Domestic Violence
… investigate the role that both partners play in abusive relationships, as well as the cultural factors which permit domestic violence. The results of this study indicate that both men and women perpetrate domestic violence and that the threat of domestic violence increases when threats to the …
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Women's needs/available choices, juxtaposing criminal justice response to wife abuse with women's words
… to assess "success" are the needs of women in abusive relationships. Further, rather than base the analysis on apriori assumptions on what women need, women's needs are problematized. The needs the women identify then become the basis from which to understand the impact of the criminal justice …
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Effective Methods to Reach Victims of Domestic Violence
The estimated number of women in abusive relationships in the United States is almost 2 million (Pyles & Postmus, 2004; Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998; Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Each year 1,500 of these women are murdered by their partners (Shostack, 2001). Yet there are 3 times as many shelters for …
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… physical isolation in rural battered women. The relationships between physical isolation, level of traumatic symptoms and social support are assessed. By definition rural women are usually geographically isolated, which may contribute to the difficulty of leaving abusive relationships. Strong …
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… physical isolation in rural battered women. The relationships between physical isolation, level of traumatic symptoms and social support are assessed. By definition rural women are usually geographically isolated, which may contribute to the difficulty of leaving abusive relationships. Strong …
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Why Use Agent-Based Models To Explore Social Issues? The Case Of Intimate Partner Violence and Social Support Systems
… women to ensure their independence from abusive relationships.
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