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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"psychological abuse"”.
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Psychological Abuse and Health: What Role Does Forgiveness Play?
… forgiveness could lead to either greater psychological abuse (reinforcement theory), or lower psychological abuse (interpersonal theory). Questionnaires were completed by 291 participants who were dating at least 2 months. More forgiveness-particularly Absence of Negativity-was related to …
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A study of psychological abuse of women in marriage
… from diverse 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 …
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Physical violence and psychological abuse among siblings: a theoretical and empirical analysis
… to explain teenage sibling physical violence and psychological abuse. Using regression analysis and data from 796 young adults, considerable support is found for all three theoretical approaches and suggests an integrated model best predicts acts of violence and abuse among siblings. For physical …
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An analysis of the manifestations of trauma following psychological abuse, and an examination of the process of recovery
… of unmarried 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 …
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The Impact of Psychological Abuse on a Female’s Engagement in Subsequent Relationships and How They Heal from the Abuse
… This study examined (a) the impact of psychological abuse on a female’s subsequent intimate relationships, and (b) what assisted the female victims of such abuse to heal and build subsequent healthy relationships. Psychological intimate partner abuse is connected to various long-term …
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Factors Mediating and Moderating the Relation Between Abuse and Commitment
… moderators between the frequency of physical and psychological abuse and victims’ level of commitment in a community sample of battered women. Relationship satisfaction was hypothesized to mediate the relation between abuse and commitment. Implicit relationship beliefs, specifically destiny and …
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Couple Therapy Process and Its Relation to Therapy Outcome
… was 40 couples presenting with mild to moderate psychological and physical abuse and who received ten sessions of couple therapy at a university-based clinic. The study investigated relations of client common factor characteristics (negative communication and negative attributions) and the …
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Interpersonal control in dating relationships: how is it affected by trust in one's partner and adult attachment style?
… year treating 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 …
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Intimate Partner Violence As a Risk Factor for PTSD in Female Survivors of Domestic Violence: A Meta-Analysis
… investigated the relationship between psychological abuse and PTSD symptomatology. A moderator variable, recruitment setting, was investigated to see whether recruitment setting changed the relationship between physical violence and PTSD symptomatology and/or the relationship between …
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Exploring the intergenerational risk for intimate partner violence among Latina mother-daughter pairs
… Koss, 1995) to examine the roles of the mother’s abuse history (physical and psychological) and the mother-daughter relationship on the daughter’s risk for dating violence among a sample of 50 Latina mother-daughter pairs. Results indicated the mothers’ experience with psychological abuse as a …
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Perceptions and attributions of child, spousal, and elder abuse.
… have studied perceptions regarding sexually abused children, little was known about how other types of abusive events were perceived. This study examined 480 college students' abuse history and perceptions of child, spousal, and elder abuse by varying the respondent, victim, and perpetrator …
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The mediating and moderating effects of women's attachment style on interrelationships among emotional abuse, physical aggression and relational stability.
… 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 women's …
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Effects of Multiple Types of Maltreatment on Mental Health
… maltreatment has primarily focused on sexual abuse and, in limited instances, physical abuse. Typically, the samples are limited to females. This study was aimed at exploring gender differences in those sexually maltreated by family members versus non-family members. In addition, the effect of …
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Aggressive and depressed: long-term outcomes of childhood maltreatment
… from the current study suggest that physical and psychological abuse are the strongest predictors of later maladaptive outcomes, both aggressive and depressive symptomology"--Leaf iv.</p>
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The Mental Health of Southeast Asian American LGBTQIA+ Adults
… reported ACEs of Household Dysfunction (83.3%), Psychological Abuse (65.8%), and Physical Abuse (39.5%). Overall, 64.1% of this sample reported low to moderate levels of outness about sexual orientation (<em>M</em> = 3.2, <em>SD</em> = 1.3). Participants indicated the highest levels of support …
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A qualitative study of five women's experiences of abuse by an intimate male partner
Woman abuse is now well recognised as a local and international concern that has serious repercussions for women's health and well-being. Little however is known about what it feels like to be abused by someone you love. How does a woman make sense of a life of physical and psychological abuse? Why …
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