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Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Mental Health: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies Among Women Seeking Help From the Police

Many variables explain the link between intimate partner violence (IPV) and its impact on women’s mental health. This proposition is mostly from samples drawn from battered women’s shelters, batterer intervention programs (BIPs), emergency rooms, and medical clinics. We know little about the psychol...

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Published in:Journal of interpersonal violence 2021-01, Vol.36 (1-2), p.527-551
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Case Records
Coping
Coping strategies
Domestic violence
Family Violence
Female roles
Females
Health planning
Help seeking behavior
Intimate partner violence
Marital status
Medical personnel
Medicine
Mental health
Police
Resilience
Resilience (Psychology)
Sex crimes
Shelters
Social support
Stalking
Symptoms
Violence
Well being
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