NCJ Number
241845
Journal
Violence Against Women Volume: 18 Issue: 12 Dated: December 2012 Pages: 1368-1389
Date Published
December 2012
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This article discusses the understanding of intimate partner stalking victimization in post-abuse women, with particular attention to the definition of stalking.
Abstract
This study aimed to further understanding of intimate partner stalking victimization in post-abuse women, with particular attention to the definition of stalking (with or without fear and threat) most predictive of posttraumatic stress (PTS) symptoms. In community midlife women with histories of divorce (N = 192), a history of stalking victimization accompanied by fear and threat was positively correlated with PTS symptom severity, after accounting for other partner abuse. The presence, compared with absence, of fear-and-threat stalking history doubled the odds of symptomatic levels of hyperarousal. Greater physical assault and injury chronicity differentiated fear-and-threat stalked women from other stalked women. Stalking contributed to a fuller understanding of PTS symptoms in women, showing particular relevance for hyperarousal. Abstract published by arrangement with Sage Journals.