When the War Is in Your Room: A Cognitive Model of Pathological Affective Dependence (PAD) and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This is an interesting topic: as the authors note, the way that educational policies are relevant to a prevention of a violent phenomenon, improving people affected with PAD and their relatives' well-being, and mental health, stopping the intergenerational trauma transmission and the huge social costs. 

communicators imagine their audiences will shape their output in significant ways. And I enjoyed what clearly has the potential to be a very rich data set.

 This is decisively relevant to figure out educa- 172 tional policies (in schools, universities, anti-violence centres, social services, etc.) to pre- 173 vent such a violent phenomenon, improving people affected with PAD and their rela- 174 tives’ well-being, and mental health, stopping the intergenerational trauma transmission 175 and the huge social costs implied. 

Author Response

Dear Reviewers, thank you for the positive and encouraging comments. As you see from the new submission, We have recently revised the article, and improved the presentation of the PAD model and the main results.
We have fully realized the importance of a scientific study confirming the model. At the moment, an initial data collection is already underway aimed at this purpose.

In behalf of All the Authors

Reviewer 2 Report

- The topic of this manuscript is interesting and introduces an innovative aspect.  The theme is relevant and has a conceptual domain, the study is a well-conceived, well-crafted, and well-presented paper.

- The authors recognize the limitations of this research, and in my view, this manuscript has primary value and provides evidence that the authors seem to recognize the main innovation of their study,

- Overall, the paper is well-placed to stimulate future research.

 - It is clear a substantial amount of work has gone into preparing this manuscript, and it can be reconsidered able to be published and may result in a modest contribution to the literature, so I recommend its rapid publication.

I  hope my comments will be useful in the process of revising this manuscript.

Author Response

Dear Reviewers, thank you for the positive and encouraging comments. As you can see from the new manuscript submission, We have recently revised the article and improved the presentation of the PAD model and the main results.
We have fully realized the importance of a scientific study confirming the model. At the moment, an initial data collection is already underway aimed at this purpose.

In behalf of All the Authors