title: Leave or stay? Battered women's decision after intimate partner violence.
abstract: Battered women's reasons for staying with or leaving their male partners are varied and complex. Using data from the Domestic Violence Experience in Omaha, Nebraska, a discrete-time hazard model was employed to examine a woman's decision based on four factors: financial independence, witness of parental violence, psychological factors, and the police response to the domestic violence call. Findings regarding the first three factors are consistent with previous findings. However, a negative police response did not deter a woman from leaving, which is a different finding from previous studies.
authors.affiliation: The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. jinseokk@gwm.sc.edu
authors.forename: Jinseok
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Karen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Gray
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D009329:Nebraska; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016387:Women's Health