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Patterns and Usefulness of Safety Behaviors Among Community-Based Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence

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Hanson, Ginger C., Messing, Jill Theresa, Anderson, Jocelyn C., Thaller, Jonel, Perrin, Nancy A., Glass, Nancy E.·2021·Journal of Interpersonal Violence

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Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) use a variety of safety strategies to reduce the frequency and severity of violence, including both informal and formal help-seeking. The purpose of this study was to identifying patterns of engagement in safety behaviors by U.S. women from outside of formal service settings, examine which factors are associated with different patterns of use, and examine the perceived usefulness of safety strategies among women who used them. Cross-sectional data from 725 women experiencing IPV were used for these analyses. A cluster analysis revealed three clusters of safety behavior use among the IPV survivors: Exploring Safety Options, Avoiding the Justice System, and Trying Everything. The trying everything cluster had high rates of use across all of the safety behaviors; they also reported the highest levels of physical, sexual, and psychological IPV. The exploring safety options cluster used the fewest safety behaviors and had the lowest level of IPV. Higher violence was related to a higher likelihood of finding safety planning helpful and a lower likelihood of finding leaving home helpful. Women who were currently living with their partner were less likely to find talking with a professional, making a safety plan, or leaving home helpful. Higher decisional conflict—uncertainty about what safety decisions would be best—was almost universally related to greater likelihood of not finding safety behaviors helpful. The study findings reinforce the importance of working with survivors to tailor safety plans with strategies that reflect their situation, and provide insights into for which tailoring of resource recommendations may be made.

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  1. Thaller J, Messing JT, Laughon K, & Campbell JC (2014). Fatal intimate partner violence. In Clements PT, Pierce-Weeks J, Holt KE, Giardino AP, Seedat S, & Alexander R (Eds.), Violence Against Women: Contemporary Examination of Intimate Partner Violence. (pp. 313– 335). Saint Louis, MS.: STM Learning.

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Authors
Hanson, G. C., Messing, J. T., Anderson, J. C., Thaller, J., Perrin, N. A., & Glass, N. E.
Affiliations
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • Arizona State University (US)
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • Ball State University (US)
Corresponding author
Hanson, Ginger C.
Venue
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Published
2019-06-04
Volume
36
Issue
17-18
Pages
8768-8791
ISSN
  • 0886-2605 (ISSN-L)
  • 1552-6518
OpenAlex
W2949029951
Cited by
33
References
59
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1
FWCI
4.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH085641)
  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K23AA027288)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (T32HD087162)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Elder Abuse and Neglect
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment
Keywords
intimate partner violence, safety behavior, safety planning, help-seeking, decisional conflict, women survivors, leaving home
MeSH terms
Intimate Partner Violence, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Violence, Survivors

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