title: Coping with dating violence as a function of violence frequency and solution attribution: a structural modeling approach.
abstract: This study presents a structural model of coping with dating violence. The model integrates abuse frequency and solution attribution to relate to college women's choices of coping strategies. Three hundred and twenty-four undergraduate women reported being targets of some physical abuse from a boyfriend and responded to questions regarding the abuse, their solution attribution, and their coping behaviors. Solution attribution mediated the relation 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.
authors.affiliation: Arizona State University, USA. mbapat@purdue.edu
authors.forename: Mona
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bapat
authors.forename: Terence J G
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Tracey
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003380:Courtship; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012747:Sexual Partners / Q000523:psychology*; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000523:psychology*; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D016387:Women's Health; D055815:Young Adult