Risk Factors for Physical Violence against Partners in the U.S.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine unique and relative predictive values of demographic, social learning, developmental, psychopathology, and dyadic variables as risk factors for perpetration of intimate partner physical aggression in a national sample of married or cohabitating individuals.

Method

Men (n=798) and women (n=770) were selected from the public use data file of the 2003 National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS-R) which used a multi-stage cluster sampling design.

Results

Eight percent of women and 5% of men reported perpetrating physical aggression in the past year. Based on multivariable regression analyses, among men, the unique risk factors for perpetrating physical aggression were parental violence, dating before age 14, dating aggression, Intermittent Explosive

SUBMITTER: O'Leary KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4520416 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature