Interpersonal relationship

===Abusive===
Abusive relationships involve either maltreatment or violence such as physical abuse, physical neglect, sexual abuse, and emotional maltreatment.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAtSAgAAQBAJ&q=National+Research+Council+.+%281993%29.+Understanding+child+abuse+and+neglect.+Washington%2C+DC%3A+National+Academy+Press.&pg=PT13|title=Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America|author=National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on Law and Justice, Committee on National Statistics, Panel to Review Risk and Prevalence of Elder Abuse and Neglect|date=2003|publisher=National Academies Press|isbn=9780309084345}}</ref> Abusive relationships within the family are very prevalent in the United States and usually involve women or children as victims.<ref name="pmid9491743">{{cite journal|vauthors=Emery RE, Laumann-Billings L|date=February 1998|title=An overview of the nature, causes, and consequences of abusive family relationships. Toward differentiating maltreatment and violence|journal=The American Psychologist|volume=53|issue=2|pages=121–35|doi=10.1037/0003-066X.53.2.121|pmid=9491743}}</ref> Common individual factors for abusers include low self-esteem, poor impulse control, external [[locus of control]], drug use, alcohol abuse, and negative [[affectivity]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/childmaltreatmen00buse|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/childmaltreatmen00buse/page/203 203]|quote=Pianta, R. B., Egeland, B., & Erickson, M. F. (1989). The antecedents of maltreatment: Results of the Mother–Child Interaction Research Project. In D. Cicchetti & V. Carlson (Eds.), Child maltreatment: Theory and research on the causes and consequences o.|title=Child Maltreatment: Theory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect|last1=Cicchetti|first1=Dante|date=1989|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521379694|name-list-style=vanc}}</ref> There are also external factors such as stress, poverty, and loss which contribute to likelihood of abuse.<ref name="pmid2653142">{{cite journal|vauthors=Emery RE|date=February 1989|title=Family violence|journal=The American Psychologist|volume=44|issue=2|pages=321–8|doi=10.1037/0003-066X.44.2.321|pmid=2653142}}</ref>