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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Margolin, Gayla
• Gordis, Elana B
• Oliver, Pamella H
• Raine, Adrian
• Levant, Ronald F

Titel

A Physiologically Based Typology of Batterers-Promising but Preliminary: Comment on Gottman et al. (1995)

Ist Teil von

• Journal of family psychology, 1995-09, Vol.9 (3), p.253-263

Ort / Verlag

American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

1995

Quelle

EBSCOhost APA PsycARTICLES

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The typology of male battering based on accelerating versus decelerating heart rates presented by J. M. Gottman et al. (1995) is promising in its connections to both individual and interactional characteristics of batterers and its fit with other recently proposed typologies. This comment develops the theoretical context for the heart rate variable within the literature on arousal and attention. The meaning of directional heart rate changes is examined in view of anticipatory reactions, biphasic responses, and the complexities of studying heart rate during an interactional sample. It is argued that a physiologically based typology must be considered in the context of sociopolitical perspectives on men's battering and with attention to the role of cognitions.