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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"emotional abuse"”.
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Emotional abuse of children: issues for intervention
This study is an examination of the emotional abuse of children, where it is the main or sole form of abuse. The ultimate aim of this applied social work project is to make a contribution to intervention in cases of psychological maltreatment. Intervention lacks credibility without some definition …
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Professional women as victims of emotional abuse within marriage or cohabitating relationships : a victimological study
This study focused on the emotional abuse suffered by victims, who were professional women, within a marriage or a cohabitating relationship. Researcher made use of various sources to obtain data concerning the phenomenon of emotional abuse and its context within domestic violence. Several …
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Childhood Emotional Abuse, Effects, and Protective Factors: Comparison of Protective Factors between Emotional and Physical Abuse
Although emotional maltreatment is clearly a very important issue that impedes youths' development, it has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves. The present study hypothesized that for adolescents with high self-worth, high religiosity, high parent and peer support, high family …
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Exploring associations between childhood emotional abuse, suicidal behaviour and deliberate self-harm: the mediating role of distress tolerance
Childhood Emotional Abuse (CEA) has been linked extensively with psychological difficulties such as deliberate self-harm (DSH), and suicidal behaviours (SB), indicating that they may represent considerable risk factors for later psychopathology. CEA is associated with poorer emotional coping …
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The mediating and moderating effects of women's attachment style on interrelationships among emotional abuse, physical aggression and relational stability.
… the impact of men's physical aggression and emotional abuse on women, it is likely that these behaviors would also affect attachment. A model proposing that women's attachment style mediated and moderated the relationship between partners' physical and emotional abuse and the stability of …
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The impact of childhood emotional abuse in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia : how adults relate past abuse to their mental health
… research is to explore the impact of childhood emotional abuse on mental health in Saudi Arabia. The research focused on understanding how adults relate their experiences of emotional abuse in childhood to their mental health status. The aim of the study is to enable adults who have experienced …
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Patterns of Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Abuse of Women by College Men: Multivariate Examination of Attitudes Toward Women, Social Environment, Psychopathology, and Childhood Exposure to Abuse
… psychopathology, and childhood exposure to abuse each contribute unique, nonredundant information in the prediction of men's patterns of abusing women. Individual sexual abusiveness, group rape/group sex involvement, physical abusiveness, and emotional abusiveness were examined. Data were …
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Interpersonal control in dating relationships: how is it affected by trust in one's partner and adult attachment style?
… victims of physical, sexual, and psychological abuse. A majority of college women (up to 75 percent) reported having experienced psychological or emotional abuse. These acts are intended to demean, criticize, and dominate one's partner. Control is one facet of psychological abuse and is intended …
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND PARANOID PERSONALITY DISORDER SYMPTOMS
… and personality pathology. History of childhood abuse leads to severe loss of trust. This loss of trust in early years is a strong predictor of the majority of personality disorders and is related to several problems in adulthood such as insecure attachment and distrust in interpersonal …
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Archival offender records analysis: examining patient abuses in Tennessee
… offenders and the dependent variable (types of abuse) in Tennessee from 2006 to 2015. A total of 227 practitioners who were either licensed, certified, or trained in their perspective professional practice or job level, convicted of abuse, physical/emotional abuse and financial abuse, were …
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Comparisons of the perceptions of child abuse by those adults who were abused as children and by nonabused adults
… the perceptions of what constitutes child abuse, specifically physical, sexual and emotional abuse by the survey respondents who were victims of abuse and by survey respondents who had not been abused. Methods: Procedures involved in the study included the following: selected results of the …
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An analysis of the manifestations of trauma following psychological abuse, and an examination of the process of recovery
… women subjected to prolonged psychological and emotional abuse within intimate relationships. The manifestations of trauma were investigated, including the psychological ramifications of exposure to repeated emotional abuse, as well as the nature of psychological captivity and the factors that …
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An exploratory study of the effects of abuse on the health of college women with mobility impairments
… violence with the most commonly known types of abuse being emotional, sexual, and physical. One relatively invisible group, women with disabilities, not only experiences emotional, sexual, and physical abuse but also a unique type of disability-related abuse, which may increase their risk of …
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Examining the Relationship Between Child Maltreatment, Executive Functioning, and trauma appraisal
… to age 18, have you ever experienced physical abuse, sexual abuse (consensual or non-consensual), emotional abuse, or neglect from a parent or adult who was responsible for your care (e.g., family friend, teacher, etc.)?" In addition to collecting demographic information, the survey measured …
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An exploration of alcohol use, attachment, and recovery in psychosis
… a history of alcohol-related problems. Childhood emotional abuse predicted motivation to drink alcohol to cope and a history of alcohol-related problems. The relationship between emotional abuse and history of alcohol-related problems was fully mediated by motivation to drink alcohol to cope. …
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The Association of Childhood Adversities and Abuse on Marital Functioning: A Longitudinal Secondary Analysis Study
… traumatic childhood experiences and physical and emotional abuse may be associated with marital functioning among long-term married, intact couples in adulthood. Specifically, using a longitudinal sample of US adults who were married to the same person across the 10 years of the study (Midlife in …
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The Role of Social Factors in Determining Outcomes in Individuals with Psychosis
… Whilst childhood trauma, specifically emotional abuse was predictive of depression in individuals with psychosis, the remaining subscales along with social capital were not associated with depression. These findings suggest a relationship between emotional abuse in childhood and …
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Child Maltreatment, Behavior Problems, And Neurocognition: Main And Mediation Effects
Child maltreatment, especially physical abuse, is highly prevalent in Mainland China and has been associated with childhood behavior problems. Nevertheless, pooled relationships between three types of child maltreatment (physical abuse, emotional abuse, and neglect) and childhood behavior problems …
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Attitudes of Undergraduate Students Towards Same-Sex Couples Adopting
… an ANOVA test for difference in attitude scores, emotional stability of the parents, quality of parenting, whether the participant felt the child would experience physical, sexual, or emotional abuse, and whether the parents would raise the child with morals and values, with a level of .05, no …
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Trauma and the PhD
… almost every person in some way. War, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, death, and difficult life events color how we make sense of the world. Trauma may happen in one blinding moment or slowly eat away at us for years. Writing is often a way to cope with that trauma. This …
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