The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the use
of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a
simple measure
of the breadth
of violent acts used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes
of partner violence victimization... [and] both
of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect
of husbands» control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these
victims of coercive control are an unrecognized category
of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics
of coercive control in intimate
abuse whether or not this control occurs in the context
of physical violence.