Psychological Abuse in Violent Domestic Relations

K. Daniel O'Leary, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology and past Chairman of the Psychology Department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Roland D. Maiuro, PhD, is the Director of the Anger Management Domestic Violence, and Workplace Conflict Programs located at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Contributors

Preface: Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, But Name Will Also Hurt Me: Psychological Abuse in Domestically Violence Relationships, Roland Maiuro

Acknowledgments

Part I. Measurement Issues

Psychological Abuse: A Variable Deserving Critical Attention in Domestic Violence, K. Daniel O'Leary

Measuring Emotional Abuse in Dating Relationships as a Multifactorial Construct, Christopher M. Murphy and Sharon A. Hoover

The Validation of the Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory, Richard M. Tolman

The Dominance Scale: Preliminary Psychometric Properties, Sherry L. Hamby

A Scale for Identifying "Stockholm Syndrome" Reactions in Young Dating Women: Factor Structure, Reliability, and Validity, Dee L.R. Graham, Edna I. Rawlings, Kim Ihms, Diane Latimer, Janet Foliano, Alicia Thompson, Kelly Suttman, Mary Farrington, and Rachel Hacker

The Reliability and Factor Structure of the Index of Spouse Abuse With African-American Women, Doris Williams Campbell, Jacquelyn Campbell, Christine King, Barbara Parker, and Josephine Ryan

Measuring Interference With Employment and Education Reported by Women With Abusive Partners: Preliminary Data, Stephanie Riger, Courtney Ahrens, and Amy Blickenstaff


Part II. Interrelationships and Outcomes

Psychological Abuse: Implications for Adjustment and Commitment to Leave Violent Partners, Ileana Arias and Karen T. Pape

Effects of Men's Subtle and Overt Psychological Abuse on Low-Income Women, Linda L. Marshall

Court-Involved Battered Women's Responses to Violence: The Role of Psychological, Physical, and Sexual Abuse, Mary Ann Dutton, Lisa A. Goodman, and Lauren Bennett

The Impact of Different Forms of Psychological Abuse on Battered Women, Leslie A. Sackett and Daniel G. Saunders


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