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The Relationship Between Violence, Social Support, and Self-Blame in Battered Women

Pepperdine University

TOMAS E. MARTINEZ

Pepperdine University

MAE KEYSON

Northridge Hospital Medical Center

This study hypothesized that battered women compared with nonbattered women use more violence, receive lower levels of social support, and experience higher levels of self-blame. Also hypothesized is that these three variables are interrelated. A sample of 95 women constituted 3 groups: battered women, nonbattered women in counseling, and nonbattered, noncounseled women. The women completed the Conflict Tactics Scales, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and a 61-item self-blame scale. Results supported all of the major hypotheses and revealed that female-to-male violence in battered women is negatively related with level of perceived social support and positively linked with level of self-blame. The latter correlation rested primarily on the association between nonphysical CTS abuse items and self-blame measures. These findings help provide further specificity about battered women's perceived lack of social support and help to clarify reported inconsistencies about self-blame.

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 11, No. 2, 221-233 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/088626096011002006


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