The study also hypothesized that these three variables are interrelated. A sample of 95 women constituted three groups: battered women; nonbattered women in counseling; and nonbattered, noncounseled women. The women completed the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS) to measure female-to-male aggression, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support to measure social support, and a 61-item self-blame scale. Results support all of the major hypotheses and show that female-to-male violence in battered women is negatively related to level of perceived social support and positively linked with level of self-blame. The latter correlation rested primarily on the association between nonphysical CTS abuse items and self-blame measures. These findings help provide further specificity about battered women's perceived lack of social support and help to clarify reported inconsistencies about self-blame. 2 tables and 42 references