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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 30.
Published in final edited form as: Child Abuse Negl. 2009 Jan 29;33(1):27–35. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2008.12.003

Table 5.

Frequency and relations among four emotional abuse subcategories (n = 147)

Spurning Terrorizing Isolating Exploiting/corrupting




n % n % n % n %
Spurning 56 100.0
Terrorizing 45 78.9 120 100.0
Isolating 8 14.0 17 14.2 20 100.0
Exploiting/Corrupting 23 41.1 41 34.2 13 65.0 46 100.0

Note: Italicized statistics in the main diagonal indicate size and % of each subcategory.