Seeking social support was the most prevalent coping strategy among IPV survivors (88.89% of studies), followed by escape-avoidance and problem-solving.

Evidence

A Scoping Review on the Coping Strategies Used by Intimate Partner Violence Survivors (PMC/NIH)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Survivors of abuse often develop survival tactics to cope. — Dave Pelzer, A Child Called ‘It’, 95; The emotion-focused strategy was the most widely used coping strategy among IPV victims, with a mean score of 29.68 on the Brief COPE scale. — Assessing coping strategies among intimate partner violence victims

Related

• The emotion-focused strategy was the most widely used coping strategy among IPV victims, with a mean score of 29.68 on the Brief COPE scale. (similarity 0.95)