abstract: This study presents a structural model of coping with dating violence. The model integrates abuse frequency and solution attribution to determine a college woman's choice of coping strategy. Three hundred, twenty-four undergraduate women reported being targets of some physical abuse from a boyfriend and responded to questions regarding the abuse, their gender role beliefs, their solution attribution and the coping behaviors they executed. Though gender role beliefs and abuse severity were not significant predictors, solution attribution mediated 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. / Dissertation/Thesis / Ph.D. Counseling Psychology 2011
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:9387 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Contributors | Bapat, Mona (Author), Tracey, Terence J.G. (Advisor), Bernstein, Bianca (Committee member), Green, Samuel (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher) |
| Source Sets | Arizona State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Format | 157 pages |
| Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/, All Rights Reserved |
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