Rethinking Social Support and Conflict: Lessons from a Study of Women Who Have Separated from Abusive Partners

Table 2

Means, standard deviations and ranges of study indicators (𝑁=309).

Indicator (measure)	Mean	SD	Range
Severity of physical IPV (ISA-P)^1	48.6	23.47	7.2–100
Severity of nonphysical IPV (ISA-NP)^2	65.4	18.63	18.5–100
Women’s Responses to abuse (WEB)^3	53.3	7.00	21–60
Social support (IPRI^4-support scale)	51.6	10.27	16–65
Social conflict (IPRI^4-conflict scale)	42.0	11.59	13–65
General physical health (SF12v2)	45.3	12.76	14.4–68.7
Chronic pain intensity; (Chronic pain scale)	49.0	25.80	0–100
Gastrointestinal symptom frequency (PASS^5-GI scale)	0.98	0.88	0–4
General mental health (SF12v2)	36.8	12.70	2.7–64.4
Depressive symptom severity (CES-D)^6	25.2	13.03	0–54.7
PTSD symptomology (DTS)^7	47.5	30.78	0–125

¹ISA-P: Index of Spouse Abuse physical scale.
²ISA-NP: Index of Spouse Abuse nonphysical abuse scale.
³WEB: Women’s Experiences of Battering.
⁴IPRI: InterPersonal Relationship Inventory.
⁵PASS: Partner Abuse Symptom Scale, gastrointestinal scale.
⁶CESD: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression scale.
⁷DTS: Davidson Trauma Scale.