Stafford, Allison McCordBurke Draucker, Claire2020-06-172020-06-172019-04McCord Stafford, A., & Burke Draucker, C. (2019). Emerging Adult Women's Views-of-Self in Intimate Partner Relationships That Are Troubled. Issues in mental health nursing, 40(4), 289–296. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2018.1524529https://hdl.handle.net/1805/22978The purpose of this study is to describe how emerging adult (EA) women describe their views-of-self in troubled relationships. Fourteen EA women (ages 18–25) wrote four stories about their troubled relationships during a guided-writing intervention. Qualitative descriptive methods and content analysis were used to identify common views-of-self. Four views-of-self in troubled relationships and contrasting views-of-self emerged: (1) silent self-vocal self, (2) sacrificing self-prioritized self, (3) caretaking self-boundary-setting self, and (4) insecure self-secure self. Mental health nurses and other clinicians can use these views-of-self pairs to guide their discussions with EA young women who are involved in troubled relationships.en-USPublisher PolicyEmerging adultTroubled relationshipsViews-of-selfArticle