Citation

Fleming KN, Newton TL, Fernandez-Botran R, Miller JJ, Burns VE. Violence Against Women 2012; 18(12): 1368-1389.

Affiliation

University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801212474447

PMID

23419275

Abstract

This study aimed to further understanding of intimate partner stalking victimization in post-abuse women, with particular attention to the definition of stalking (with or without fear and threat) most predictive of posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms. In community midlife women with histories of divorce (N = 192), a history of stalking victimization accompanied by fear and threat was positively correlated with PTS symptom severity, after accounting for other partner abuse. The presence, compared with absence, of fear-and-threat stalking history doubled the odds of symptomatic levels of hyperarousal. Greater physical assault and injury chronicity differentiated fear-and-threat stalked women from other stalked women. Stalking contributed to a fuller understanding of PTS symptoms in women, showing particular relevance for hyperarousal.

Language: en