Effects of Work on Hitting and Hurting

Researchers have documented the ways battering can impede work and impoverish women. This project looked at abuse, work, and poverty the other way around, asking, Does women's working affect abuse or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? This article reports 162 welfare recipients' subjec...

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Published inViolence against women Vol. 9; no. 10; pp. 1213 - 1230
Main Author Brush, Lisa D.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 01.10.2003
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Battered Women
Domestic violence
Family Violence
Female employees
Labor Force Participation
Low Income Groups
Pennsylvania
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Poverty
Welfare
Welfare Recipients
Working Women
battering
poverty
welfare
work
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Summary:Researchers have documented the ways battering can impede work and impoverish women. This project looked at abuse, work, and poverty the other way around, asking, Does women's working affect abuse or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? This article reports 162 welfare recipients' subjective assessments of the effects their working had on physical violence, work-related abuse, and PTSD symptoms. For many respondents, work aggravated abuse, in which case their average wages and weeks worked were lower. Many respondents also reported that working ameliorated their symptoms. These findings explain contradictory results of previous studies and form the basis for research, policy, and practice recommendations.
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ISSN:1077-8012
1552-8448
DOI:10.1177/1077801203255848