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- Title
Men's Experience of Psychological Abuse: Conceptualization and Measurement Issues.
- Authors
McHugh, Maureen; Rakowski, Samantha; Swiderski, Catherine
- Abstract
In this paper the literature on men's experience of psychological abuse (in the U.S.) is reviewed and the ability to conceptualize and measure such abuse is reconsidered. Scales used to measure psychological abuse based on the experiences of battered women are critiqued as inadequate as measures of psychological abuse of men. Although both men and women direct psychological abuse toward their partners, violence perpetrated by men and women is not necessarily the same. Adopting a gender role perspective on psychological abuse, we argue that women may use different strategies to hurt men including manipulation and gender role harassment, whereas coercive control paired with physical abuse may constitute one version of (male) intimate partner violence.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICALLY abused men; INTIMATE partner violence; INVECTIVE; PSYCHOLOGICAL abuse; HARASSMENT; MEN -- Abuse of; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Sex Roles, 2013, Vol 69, Issue 3-4, p168
- ISSN
0360-0025
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11199-013-0274-3