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Fagan, Ronald W.; And Others – 1987
Alcohol consumption is often associated with aggressive behaviors. This study compared the contexts and reasons for drinking of maritally violent men (N=44) and three maritally nonviolent comparison groups: happily married men (N=54), unhappily married men (N=41), and men who had been convicted of a violent offense, but who did not beat their…
Descriptors: Aggression, Battered Women, Drinking, Family Violence
Download full textBachman, Ronet; Straus, Murray A. – 1990
This study examined the link between alcohol use and domestic violence in the American Indian population. A total of 204 American Indian families and 2,007 non-American Indian Whites were analyzed using the 1985 National Family Violence Resurvey. The rates of family violence were first calculated by ethnicity, and then compared to a sample of…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, American Indians, Battered Women
O'Farrell, Timothy J.; Choquette, Keith A. – 1990
The Conflict Tactics Scale questionnaire on marital violence was administered to 29 alcoholics and their wives at entry to, and 1 year after, completing a behavioral marital therapy (BMT) treatment program. In the year prior to BMT, prevalence rates of any violent act, of minor to moderate violent acts, and of severe violent acts were five to six…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Battered Women, Behavior Modification, Counseling Effectiveness
Kantor, Glenda Kaufman; Straus, Murray A. – 1986
This study examined assaults on wives by their husbands in an attempt to provide information on the intoxication-victimization theory, a theory that posits intoxication as a condition which increases the probability of victimization. Data were obtained by telephone interviews in 1985 with a national probability sample of 6,002 households. The wife…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Drinking, Drug Use, Family Income
Peer reviewedRatner, Pamela A. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1998
Explores the effectiveness of modeling acts of aggression and dominance as casual indicators of forms of wife abuse and their effects on women's health, including physical injuries, psychopathology, alterations to psyche, anger, alcohol and drug use, and subsequent general health status. New estimates of the relative severity are provided.…
Descriptors: Age, Aggression, Anger, Battered Women
PDF pending restorationCarducci, Bernardo J.; McNeely, Judith A. – 1981
Several researchers have explored the role of alcohol in domestic violence and attributions of blame. To compare the amount of blame attributed to an incident of wife abuse, alcoholic (N=52) and nonalcoholic (N=159) subjects read an account of wife abuse and distributed a percentage of the blame to the man, the woman, and the situation.…
Descriptors: Aggression, Alcoholism, Attribution Theory, Battered Women
Matlock, Tracy; And Others – 1994
Domestic violence is the most frequent type of violent crime, thus children are likely to experience or witness violence at home. In this study, familial variables predictive of domestic violence were investigated. Data were collected from 64 intake forms at a battered women's shelter in the Mississippi Delta. Most clients were white and had…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Child Abuse, Children, Crime
