Intimate Partner Violence Dynamics and Help Seeking Among Mexican Women: Results From a 2016 National Household Survey

• Published in: Journal of interpersonal violence Vol. 37; no. 5-6; pp. 2681 - 2704
• Main Author: Frías, Sonia M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.03.2022; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Abused women; Civil service; Collective representation; Divorce; Domestic violence; Family Violence; Females; Help Seeking; Help seeking behavior; Heterosexuality; Hispanic people; Institutions; Intimate partner violence; Law enforcement; National Surveys; Polls & surveys; Resistance; State Surveys; Violence; law-enforcement; intimate terrorism; domestic violence; violent resistance; disclosure of domestic violence; coercive control

Using the recent 2016 National Survey on Household Dynamics (N = 98,768 heterosexual Mexican women currently married, cohabiting, separated, divorced, or dating with a noncohabiting partner), this study has three objectives: first, to assess the prevalence of different intimate partner violence (IPV...