Examining Gender Differences in the Nature and Context of Intimate Partner Violence

Autor/in	Cho, Hyunkag
Titel	Examining Gender Differences in the Nature and Context of Intimate Partner Violence
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 27 (2012) 13, S.2665-2684 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260512436391
Schlagwörter	Females; Discriminant Analysis; Gender Differences; Family Violence; Context Effect; Criminals; Victims of Crime; Age Differences; Racial Differences; Educational Attainment; Employment Level; Family Income; Behavior Problems; Interpersonal Relationship; Incidence; Cultural Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Diskriminanzanalyse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Straftäter; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Rassenunterschied; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Beschäftigungsgrad; Familieneinkommen; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Vorkommen; Kultureller Unterschied
Abstract	Many studies have been conducted on gender differences in intimate partner violence (IPV), producing inconsistent results. Some studies report that men were victimized by IPV as much as women were, whereas others find that IPV was predominantly perpetrated by men against women. The nature and context of IPV may be crucial to understanding gender differences in IPV, but national data collections do not regularly report on this information. This study expects to fill this gap by using nationally representative data to examine differences in the nature and context of IPV between male and female perpetrators. This study uses the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES). Descriptive statistics for each gender are first obtained (n = 2,190). A discriminant analysis is used with gender as a grouping variable, including only perpetrators of IPV (n = 236). The independent variables are age, race, education, employment, financial security, frequency and severity of IPV, controlling behaviors, and the initiator of physical arguments. The study findings suggest that women and men do not vary much in the prevalence, frequency, and severity of IPV, controlling behaviors, or the initiation of physical arguments. They also suggest that those variables are rather weak in differentiating IPV against men from IPV against women. Since the study revealed some gender differences in IPV and, at the same time, encountered methodological difficulties in convincingly showing them as real gender differences, more research is clearly needed. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10