Citation

Bapat M, Tracey TJ. Violence Vict. 2012; 27(3): 329-343.

Affiliation

Arizona State University, USA. mbapat@purdue.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

22852435

Abstract

This study presents a structural model of coping with dating violence. The model integrates abuse frequency and solution attribution to relate to college women's choices of coping strategies. Three hundred and twenty-four undergraduate women reported being targets of some physical abuse from a boyfriend and responded to questions regarding the abuse, their solution attribution, and their coping behaviors. Solution attribution mediated the relation between frequency of the abuse and coping. Abuse frequency had a positive effect on external solution attribution, and external solution attribution had a positive effect on the level of use of active coping, utilization of social support, denial, and acceptance.

Language: en