Source: ABS Personal Safety, Australia, 2016 statistics

Key findings

• One in four women and one in six men have experienced partner emotional abuse since the age of 15

• Within emotionally abusive relationships, threatening and degrading behaviours were more commonly experienced than controlling social or financial behaviours

• Financial stress, living with intellectual or psychological disability and single parenthood were associated with higher rates of partner emotional abuse

• Those who experienced abuse or witnessed parental violence as a child were twice as likely than those who did not to experience partner emotional abuse as an adult

• Over half of women and a quarter of men who experienced partner emotional abuse also experienced physical and/or sexual violence by a partner