TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring Variations Within Situational Couple Violence and Comparisons With Coercive Controlling Violence and No Violence/No Control
AU - Nielsen, Samantha K.
AU - Hardesty, Jennifer L.
AU - Raffaelli, Marcela
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD; R21HD061559A), the Department of Human and Community Development and the Office of Research in the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, and Hatch Grant 793-348 from the United States Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
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PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - We examined variations within situational couple violence among 23 divorcing mothers and compared them with mothers with coercive controlling violence and no violence/no control. Situational couple violence had great variability in frequency and severity of violence, fear, harassment, and protective strategies. In some cases, situational couple violence was frequent and severe and resembled coercive controlling violence in its consequences. The dynamics of fear and harassment in situational couple violence and in the divorce process in general warrant attention. Finally, mothers reported mental health symptoms that did not differ by group, which is likely due to the stresses of divorce.
AB - We examined variations within situational couple violence among 23 divorcing mothers and compared them with mothers with coercive controlling violence and no violence/no control. Situational couple violence had great variability in frequency and severity of violence, fear, harassment, and protective strategies. In some cases, situational couple violence was frequent and severe and resembled coercive controlling violence in its consequences. The dynamics of fear and harassment in situational couple violence and in the divorce process in general warrant attention. Finally, mothers reported mental health symptoms that did not differ by group, which is likely due to the stresses of divorce.
KW - divorce
KW - domestic violence
KW - intimate partner violence
KW - mothers
KW - situational couple violence
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U2 - 10.1177/1077801215599842
DO - 10.1177/1077801215599842
M3 - Article
C2 - 26333282
AN - SCOPUS:84951778243
SN - 1077-8012
VL - 22
SP - 206
EP - 224
JO - Violence Against Women
JF - Violence Against Women
IS - 2
ER -