%0 Journal Article %T Predictors of Physical and Emotional Health in a Sample of Abused Australian Women %J Journal of interpersonal violence %D 2002 %A Parker, Glennys %A Lee, Christina %V 17 %N 9 %P 987-1001 %X This study investigated the extent to which aspects of abuse and of help seeking were associated with physical and emotional health. A total of 1,168 women aged 48 to 53, identified from the mid-age cohort of the Women’s Health Australia longitudinal project as having experienced abuse, completed self-report questionnaires. Descriptors of the abuse and of help seeking were used in an attempt to predict scores on the SF-36 physical and mental health summary measures, GHQ-12, and the CES-D depression scale. Although relationships were apparent in the data, all predictors together accounted for less than 25% of the variance in outcome measures, indicating that a history of abuse is only one aspect of a woman’s life that impacts on her general wellbeing. Future investigations would benefit from a focus on personal coping characteristics that are predictive of positive outcomes to identify strategies that help women survive abuse experiences

%G en %I SAGE Publishing %@ 0886-2605 %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260502017009005