TY - JOUR
T1 - Intimate partner violence victim and perpetrator characteristics among couples in the United States
AU - Caetano, Raul
AU - Vaeth, Patrice A C
AU - Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini
N1 - Funding Information:
Work on this paper was supported by a grant (R37-AA10908) from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to the University of Texas School of Public Health. R.Caetano(*).P.A.C.Vaeth.S.Ramisetty-Mikler Dallas Regional Campus, University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, 6011 Harry Hines Blvd. Room V8.112, Dallas, TX 75390-9128, USA e-mail: Raul.Caetano@UTSouthwestern.edu
PY - 2008/8
Y1 - 2008/8
N2 - This paper describes the characteristics (sociodemographic, drinking and selected psychological attributes) of victims, perpetrators and those who engage in mutual intimate partner violence (IPV) among couples in the U.S. Subjects constitute a multistage area probability sample representative of married and cohabiting couples from the 48 contiguous United States. Results indicate that age is the only variable that appears to have a consistent effect for men and women and across violence-related statuses: Older individuals are less likely to be victims, perpetrators and less likely to be involved in mutually violent relationships. Other variables such as ethnicity, marital status, drinking, impulsivity, depression and powerlessness are either gender or status-specific in their ability to predict victimization, perpetration or victimization/ perpetration. Overall, those involved in violent relationships do not appear to be very different from those not involved in violent relationships. The most likely reason for lack of this difference is the nature of IPV in general population samples, which is in most cases moderate.
AB - This paper describes the characteristics (sociodemographic, drinking and selected psychological attributes) of victims, perpetrators and those who engage in mutual intimate partner violence (IPV) among couples in the U.S. Subjects constitute a multistage area probability sample representative of married and cohabiting couples from the 48 contiguous United States. Results indicate that age is the only variable that appears to have a consistent effect for men and women and across violence-related statuses: Older individuals are less likely to be victims, perpetrators and less likely to be involved in mutually violent relationships. Other variables such as ethnicity, marital status, drinking, impulsivity, depression and powerlessness are either gender or status-specific in their ability to predict victimization, perpetration or victimization/ perpetration. Overall, those involved in violent relationships do not appear to be very different from those not involved in violent relationships. The most likely reason for lack of this difference is the nature of IPV in general population samples, which is in most cases moderate.
KW - Intimate partner violence
KW - National sample
KW - Perpetration
KW - Victimization
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U2 - 10.1007/s10896-008-9178-3
DO - 10.1007/s10896-008-9178-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:44449109007
SN - 0885-7482
VL - 23
SP - 507
EP - 518
JO - Journal of Family Violence
JF - Journal of Family Violence
IS - 6
ER -