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Touch Choices: Women, Abusive Partners, and the Ecology of Decision-Making

Publication: Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
April 1999

Abstract

In a qualitative study, 35 women who had lived with violent partners were interviewed regarding their experience making decisions about their relationships to their abusers. This paper explores their storie. The integrating the common themes with reports from other studies. The insights of the women participating in this and other research support an ecological understanding of the tough choices they face—a framework which respects the role of environmental factors (demands and resources) in helping or constraining choices at the same time as it recognizes the importance of powerful mediating factors (beliefs, values, and a sense of personal efficacy).

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Dans une étude qualitaive, on a fait des entrevucs avee 35 femmes qui avaient habité avec des partenaires violent. Chaque entrevue portait sur l'expérience de la femme par rapport aux décisions qui affectaient sea liens avee celui qui l'a abusé. Cette étude examine les histoires de ces femmes, en intégrant les thèmes communs de ees histoires avec des informations tenues d'autres études. Les aperçus des femmes qui ont participé dans cet étude et dans autres études favorisant une caracterisation ecologique des choix difficiles auxquels elles fort face. Un tel cadre, tout en respectant le rôle des facteurs environnementaux (demandes et ressources) en favorisant ou on limitant ces choix, reconnait aussi l'importance de quelques puissants facteurs médiateurs (croyances, valeurs et un sentiment d'efficacité personnelle).

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cover image Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health
Volume 18Number 1April 1999
Pages: 5 - 18

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Version of record online: 4 May 2009

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Michael Rothery
Leslie Tutty
Gillian Weaver

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