Battered women's decision to leave or return to abusive relationships
| dc.contributor.author | Wardell, Diane Wind | |
| dc.contributor.committeeChair | Throckmorton, Terry | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Ragsdale, Diane | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | McFarlane, Judith M. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-12-15T04:54:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-12-15T04:54:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1990-08 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A nonexperimental, descriptive, retrospective study was conducted using the records of 330 residents housed in a shelter for battered women during the year of 1984. Data were analyzed using descriptive and multivariate statistical techniques. The average participants were women who were: an average of 28 years old, married for one to five years with two children who had been abused, Anglo, economically dependent, physically and verbally abused, and abused during a pregnancy. Discriminant analysis results suggested that those women who reported being physically, verbally, and sexually abused were more likely to have experienced: sexual abuse as a child and during pregnancy, more severe forms of verbal abuse, more frequent batterings, jealousy as an issue in the relationship, and a high school education or less. Discriminant analysis results suggested that women who report they would leave the battering relationship were more likely: to be dependent on self for income, to have child abuse present, to be Non-anglo, to stay in the shelter longer, to have no identified alcohol problems in the batterer, and to have had no negative experience with the police. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11274/12570 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Families and family life | |
| dc.subject | Personal relationships | |
| dc.subject | Sociology | |
| dc.subject | Criminology | |
| dc.subject | Women's studies | |
| dc.title | Battered women's decision to leave or return to abusive relationships | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Nursing | en_US |
| thesis.degree.department | Nursing | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Nursing | en_US |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas Woman's University | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |