A. Pashina

On the results of anonymous testing, it was found that 65.5% of 302 female Ss suffered frorn one or more types of violence. Psychological, physical, sexual or economic types of violence occur in women’s own family (husband, ex-husband or sexual partner) and/or in parents’ family, at work or in another social situations; this types are related with fear, loneliness, guilt as well as justifying of violent behavior toward woman. After testing the characteristics of emotional sphere in 126 women, it was found that experience of violence provokes extreme increase of constitutional and situational anxiety and social emotionality; the levels of social ergicity and flexibility decrease significantly.