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Is Decision-Making of Women Concerning Their Violent Relationships Truly Nonlinear …and Why Is That?

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We understand little of women’s action-taking about their violent relationships other than it is qualitatively nonlinear. Nonlinearity could be due to: (1) nonlinearity of underlying violence, (2) the presence of multiple, interdependent predictors or (3) circularly-causal predictors, or (4) an underlying cusp catastrophic phenomenon where the relationship between violence burden and readiness-for-action is distorted by factors affecting the relationship. The purpose of this study was to determine whether women’s perceived needs-for-help, legal action, or leaving concerning her violent relationship very nonlinear and the source of that nonlinearity.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

    David Katerndahl, Sandra Burge, Robert Ferrer, Robert Wood & Maria Del Pilar Montanez Villacampa

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA

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Katerndahl, D., Burge, S., Ferrer, R., Becho, J., Wood, R., Montanez Villacampa, M.D.P. (2019). Is Decision-Making of Women Concerning Their Violent Relationships Truly Nonlinear …and Why Is That?. In: Sturmberg, J. (eds) Embracing Complexity in Health. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10940-0_9

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