Exploring Variations Within Situational Couple Violence and Comparisons With Coercive Controlling Violence and No Violence/No Control.
We examined variations within situational couple violence among 23 divorcing mothers and compared them with mothers with coercive controlling violence and no violence/no control. Situational couple violence had great variability in frequency and severity of violence, fear, harassment, and protective strategies. In some cases, situational couple violence was frequent and severe and resembled coercive controlling violence in its consequences. The dynamics of fear and harassment in situational couple violence and in the divorce process in general warrant attention. Finally, mothers reported mental health symptoms that did not differ by group, which is likely due to the stresses of divorce.
Texas A & M University, USA samantha.k.nielsen@gmail.com.
Samantha K
SK
Nielsen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Jennifer L
JL
Hardesty
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
Marcela
M
Raffaelli
D000328:Adult; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology; D003068:Coercion; D004243:Divorce; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D000071277:Harassment, Non-Sexual; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D009035:Mothers; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012747:Sexual Partners; D013179:Spouse Abuse; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D014754:Violence
divorce; domestic violence; intimate partner violence; mothers; situational couple violence