University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2013 Feb;28(3):621-42. doi: 10.1177/0886260512455520. Epub 2012 Aug 27.
Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is a prevalent and serious problem throughout the world, causing devastating mental and physical health problems for victims. Recent research has begun to focus on factors that may influence women's decisions to stay or leave their abusive partners, as interventions for batterers has only resulted in minimal success in reducing IPV. Therefore, this study preliminarily examined the influence of women's perceptions of their social network members' subjective norms and their relationship commitment on stages of change to end an abusive relationship among a community sample of female IPV victims (N = 84). Results showed that subjective norms and women's relationship commitment were associated with women's stages of change. Relationship commitment did not mediate the relation between subjective norms and stages of change. These findings indicate that a number of factors contribute to women's stay/leave decision-making process, and close social network members could be included in interventions designed to keep women safe.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是全世界普遍存在且严重的问题，给受害者带来毁灭性的身心健康问题。最近的研究开始关注可能影响女性决定是否离开施虐伴侣的因素，因为针对施虐者的干预措施仅导致 IPV 的减少收效甚微。因此，这项研究初步考察了女性对其社交网络成员的主观规范和关系承诺的看法对社区样本中的女性 IPV 受害者（N=84）结束虐待关系的变化阶段的影响。结果表明，主观规范和女性的关系承诺与女性的变化阶段有关。关系承诺并不能调解主观规范与变化阶段之间的关系。这些发现表明，许多因素会影响女性的去留决策过程，社交网络中的亲密成员可以被纳入旨在保护女性安全的干预措施中。
