BACKGROUND Most intimate partner violence (IPV) prevalence studies do not examine the relationships between IPV types and the chronicity and severity of abuse. OBJECTIVES Delineate prevalence, chronicity, and severity of IPV among adult women. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study conducted by telephone survey. Data were collected in 2003 to 2005 and analyzed contemporaneously. PARTICIPANTS E...

This article aims to provide a more complete description of the violence between parents experienced by children than is usual in research and to suggest the practicality and importance of doing so. It presents results on the percent of parents in each of three Dyadic Types: Father-Only (the father assaulted the mother and the mother did not assault), Mother-Only (mother assaulted and the fathe...

Head-injured patients frequently appear to be inaccurate in judging their cognitive functioning. To examine this clinical impression, self-ratings were compared with neuropsychological test performances. The sample was comprised of 28 patients with severe and 28 with mild-moderate head injuries, and these two groups were further subdivided according to chronicity, i.e. less than or equal to 1 y...

Three groups (N = 60) of schizophrenics (with varying levels of chronicity and drug dosages) were administered the Whitaker Index of Schizophrenic Thinking, the Mini-Mental State, and the Self-Conscious Scale. The results indicated that no differences existed between the chronic and acute groups on the dependent measures. Furthermore, no significant differences emerged between 21 of the acute p...

The long-term course of schizophrenia, one of the world’s most serious public health problems, is generally regarded as one of chronicity and disability. Despite the availability of treatment, more than 50% of patients continue to exhibit moderate levels of “positive symptoms” such as delusions, hallucinations, and disorganized thinking and behaviour, and “negative symptoms” such as poverty of ...

The authors examined variables differentiating singly and multiply victimized youth with a national household probability sample of 4,023 adolescents. Youth endorsing one episode (i.e., one incident or series of repeat incidents) of sexual or physical assault were classified as singly victimized (n = 435). Multiply victimized youth were those who endorsed multiple discrete episodes of sexual or...

The current work considered how self-concept organization moderates the consequences of chronic attributes, which are widely assumed to be always accessible and influential. In Study 1, the accessibility of participants' chronic attributes was assessed before and after activating a self-aspect that was either relevant or irrelevant to participants' chronic attributes. Results showed that chroni...