@article{ref1,
title="Help-seeking behavior in survivors of intimate partner violence: toward an integrated behavioral model of individual factors",
journal="Violence and victims",
year="2017",
author="Eubanks Fleming, C. J. and Resick, Patricia A.",
volume="32",
number="2",
pages="195-209",
abstract="This study examined individual behavioral predictors of help-seeking using the frameworks of the Andersen model and thetheory of planned behavior in a sample of help-seeking female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV). In-person interviews were conducted with 372 women (<em>M</em><sub>age</sub> = 34.41 years, 66% African American). <br><br>RESULTS indicated that variables suggested by the Andersen model, including age, depression, psychological aggression, and posttraumatic stress-related arousal symptoms, were significant predictors of help-seeking. Variables suggested by the theory of planned behavior, including perceived helpfulness of resource and perceived controllability of the violence, were also significantly related to help-seeking. However, a combined model including variables from both theoretical approaches accounted for the most variance in help-seeking behavior. Overall, results suggest that these models are useful conceptualizations of help-seeking in an IPV population and that it is important to consider personal characteristics, need-based variables, and cognitive factors in outreach efforts.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-6708",
doi="10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-15-00065",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.VV-D-15-00065"
}