title: Adaptation as a mediator of intimate abuse and traumatic stress in battered women.
abstract: The purpose of this research was to test one aspect of a proposed middle-range theory synthesized from the Roy adaptation model and linked with the framework of post-traumatic stress. A predictive-correlational design was used to examine adaptation as a mediator of traumatic stress in battered women. Analysis included regression and path analytic procedures. Results indicated (a) direct relationships between the focal stimuli of abuse and the response of post-traumatic stress disorder and (b) adaptation in the physiologic, self-concept, and interdependence modes partially mediated the relationship between the focal stimuli of abuse and the response of post-traumatic stress disorder in battered women.
authors.affiliation: University of Akron, Ohio, USA.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Woods
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Isenberg
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012044:Regression Analysis; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*