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The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context
versión On-line ISSN 1989-4007versión impresa ISSN 1889-1861
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GONZALEZ-MENDEZ, Rosaura y SANTANA-HERNANDEZ, Juana D.. Perceived risk and safety-related behaviors after leaving a violent relationship. The European Journal of Psychology Applied to Legal Context [online]. 2014, vol.6, n.1, pp.1-7. ISSN 1989-4007. https://dx.doi.org/10.5093/ejpalc2014a1.
Given that victim' risk perception could improve risk assessment in cases of intimate partner violence research is paying attention to it. However, it is not clear whether perceived risk relates to safety-related behaviors. This study is aimed to analyze how perceived risk by women who have left a violent partner relates to their safety-related behaviors and post-separation violence. Participants were 249 women (from protection services and the community) who had concluded a violent relationship. A structural equation model describes the relationships between three groups of factors: (1) women's risk perception; (2) three types of conditions that increase the opportunity for victim/abuser contact: (a) women's actions that make them easier to track, (b) women's reasons for not protecting themselves, and (c) batterers' strategies to gain access to their former intimate partners; and (3) post-separation violence. Results indicate that psychological violence is positively related to perceived risk and helplessness. Moreover, while women's risk perception predicts less contact and self-deception, male strategies predict greater contact and routines. In turn, contact predicts intimacy, whose absence fully accounts for 93.3% of the prediction of no re-abuse, six months later. The results' implications for intervention are discussed.
Palabras clave : Intimate partner violence; Risk perception; Safety-related; behaviors; Separation; batterers; Risk assessment.