This study examines the roles of physical and emotional abuse and resource utilization, relationship efficacy, and childhood abuse on relationship status (together or separated) in a sample of 69 low-income, nonsheltered battered women. Separate path models were conducted for physical and psychological abuse. Increased physical abuse was related to separated status, increased resource utilizati...

The aim of this paper is to explore the status of women‘s empowerment through reserved seats at the lower level of decentralized body, especially Union Parishad (here after UP) in Bangladesh. The paper also tries to find out major challenges towards women empowerment in UP. At the same time, there will be an attempt to provide some suggestions to overcome those challenges. The study is based on...

AIM To test alternatives to the current research and clinical practice of assuming that married or partnered status is a proxy for positive social support. BACKGROUND Having a partner is assumed to relate to better health status via the intermediary process of social support. However, women's health research indicates that having a partner is not always associated with positive social support...

Using controlled experiments to compare the risk attitude and willingness to compete of husbands and wives in 500 couples in rural Vietnam, we find that women are more risk averse than men and that, compared to men, women are less likely to choose to compete, irrespectively of how likely they are to succeed. Our findings suggest that women are more likely to self-select into economic activities...

This qualitative research study was undertaken, in part, in an effort to develop an understanding of decisions experienced as moral conflicts by women who have experienced abuse by an intimate partner. Eighteen rural women who had been or were currently in an abusive relationship with a male partner participated in the study. An adaptation of the Real-Life Moral Conflict and Choice Interview (L...

Despite the exceptionally high rates of domestic violence in Alaska, Alaskan jurisprudence affords battered women varied and sparse guidance for the use of their experience as a battered woman in criminal trials. Of the minimal guidance offered, none arises in the form of a binding Alaska Supreme Court opinion, rule of evidence, or governing statute. As one of the few states lacking established...

Marital violence has long suffered inattention from social agencies and the health care system. Now as an emerging social problem, the battered woman has become the focus of numerous articles in the lay press which vividly describe her plight. Because there are no controlled studies of these women, little is known about the variables that distinguish them from the general population, and what m...

The purpose of the current study was to explore college women's stay/ leave decisions in abusive relationships using a prospective methodology. Participants (N = 323) completed surveys at the beginning and end of a 10-week academic quarter for course credit. A path analysis suggested that the model-which included investment model variables (i.e., relationship commitment, investment, satisfactio...

F: I’ve invited you here to discuss a very thought-provoking paper I’ve just read. It’s written by Neil Websdale. It’s a fictionalized account of a discussion between a researcher and a battered woman about fatality review teams. I’m interested in getting your thoughts about some of the comments made by the battered woman. Many are quite critical of the structure and process used by many teams....

The Danger Assessment is a clinical and research instrument that has been designed to help battered women assess their danger of homicide. Completing the Danger Assessment with a nurse is conceptualized as a means of increasing the self-care agency of battered women, according to Orem's nursing conceptual framework. The instrument was used in a study of 79 battered women. Results of this study,...