Abstrakt: | "On the basis of clinical data and research findings, Brown and Herbert
(1999) described characteristic features of spousal violence offenders.
Among others features there such ones as low self-esteem, lack of
social skills and assertiveness, emotional disorders (anxiety, depression),
alcohol abuse, poor self-control, imperiousness, jealousy, lack of empathy
and sympathy, material and social problems (unemployment). Barnett et
al. (1997), Bennett and Wiliams (1999; after Krahe, 2005), and Wiehe
(1998) showed that people doing harm to their female partners are characterized
by low self-esteem, a sense of helplessness resulting from thecauses lying outside of a relationship, pathological jealousy, antisocial
personality disorders". |