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Davidovich, Jessica R. – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1990
Explores psychological variables which have been identified as characteristic of males who physically abuse their partners to determine which variables explain acts of violently abusive male who engages in spouse abuse. Presents the psychology of wife abuse from the perspectives of personality, social learning theory, and the psychodynamics.…
Descriptors: Anger, Assertiveness, Battered Women, Coping