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Partner's Stake in Conformity and Abused Wives' Psychological Trauma

Alfred DeMaris

Bowling Green State University, ademari{at}bgnet.bgsu.edu

Catherine Kaukinen

University of Colorado–Colorado Springs

This study investigates the potential buffering effect of help-seeking in the association between intimate partner assault and women's psychological trauma, and how this, in turn, may depend on the partner's stake in conformity. The sample consists of 374 women reporting the experience of domestic violence from a current intimate partner, drawn from the larger survey Violence and Threats of Violence Against Women and Men in the United States, 1994-1996. Help-seeking did not appear to buffer the impact of assault severity, contrary to expectation. However, the partner's stake in conformity did condition the effect of his or her having been arrested. Victims had higher levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when police arrested partners of average or below-average stake in conformity. But victims of partners characterized by higher than average stake in conformity did not show elevated PTSD due to their partners having been arrested. On the other hand, PTSD was higher among women experiencing more emotional abuse from the partner.

Key Words: domestic violence • women's mental health • help-seeking • stake in conformity

This version was published on October 1, 2008

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 23, No. 10, 1323-1342 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0886260508314300
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