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Hale, Gregory; And Others – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1988
Administered Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) to 67 men expressing concerned about their violence in relationships. Results revealed MMPI profiles consistent with batterer's tendency to minimize and externalize blame for his violent behavior, feel inadequate and dissatisfied with himself, have low ego strength, be overly…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Family Violence, Interpersonal Relationship, Males
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Jacobson, Neil S.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1994
Studied affect, psychophysiology, and verbal content of arguments in 60 couples with violent husband. Found that no wife behaviors successfully suppressed husband violence once it began; husband violence escalated in response to nonviolent and violent wife behaviors. Both battering husbands and their wives were angrier than their maritally…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Anger, Battered Women, Family Violence
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Saunders, Daniel G. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2004
The typology studies reviewed in the Holtzworth-Munroe and Meehan article make considerable methodological and substantive contributions to the field. There are several definitional, conceptual, and methodological advances that can be explored in this work. Macroframeworks such as the nested ecological model and the theory of triadic influence…
Descriptors: Ecology, Models, Classification, Males
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Bowen, Linda K.; Gwiasda, Victoria; Brown, M. Mitchell – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2004
The Institute for Community Peace has conducted two demonstration projects to determine whether communities can be engaged to prevent violence as it is identified and defined locally and link primary prevention across multiple forms of violence. The projects present evidence that community engagement can effect primary violence prevention; the…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Violence, Family Violence, Community Action
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Waltermaurer, Eve – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2005
With the goal of understanding the true extent of intimate partner violence (IPV), researchers have put tremendous effort over the past 20 years developing, revising, and assessing IPV screening instruments. The enhancements made in IPV instrumentation reflect our improved understanding of the nature of IPV. Unfortunately, as is often the case…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Screening Tests, Family Violence, Interpersonal Relationship
Duker, Laurie, Ed. – 1990
Many gun manufacturers market guns to women claiming a gun can provide protection. Statistics provided in this fact sheet indicate gun ownership may provide a false sense of security that can be fatal, since the greatest threat to a woman comes from the people and guns within her own home. Contrary to "typical" scenarios created by advertisers,…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Crime, Crime Prevention, Family Violence
Blackman, Julie – 1987
This paper concerns different aspects of four dilemmas of objectivity and bias facing expert witnesses in trials involving violence between intimates: (1) the urge to be correct, clever, and consistent; (2) the tension between being an advocate and being an educator in the courtroom; (3) the influence of experts' life experiences and presumed…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Bias, Court Litigation, Death
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DeMaris, Alfred – Journal of Family Issues, 1987
Tested a model consisting of social class, balance of resources between partners, and experience with violence in family of orientation (factors that have greatest salience to spouse abuse) on a sample of 484 white college students. Results suggest that models based on marital violence may have limited predictive power in accounting for violence…
Descriptors: College Students, Dating (Social), Family Problems, Family Violence
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Coleman, Frances L. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1997
Refines the behavioral definition of stalking, investigates the role stalking plays in domestic violence, and develops demographic profiles of stalkers and their victims. Results based on information taken from 141 college women show that subjects who reported significantly more abuse during relationships were more likely to be stalked by former…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Students, Criminals, Family Violence
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Szyndrowski, Deanna – Preventing School Failure, 1999
This review of the literature on the relationship between domestic violence and adolescent aggression focuses on the added risks to the normative stresses of adolescence when the adolescent's family is characterized by conflict, the role of the family in the child's development of social competence, and warning signs of children affected by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Aggression, Emotional Problems, Family Problems
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Starr, Christina, Ed.; And Others – Women's Education/Education des femmes, 1992
This special issue of a bilingual periodical dedicated to the investigation of women's access to education and to feminist analysis of education and learning presents a variety of stories written by women who have experienced abuse that affected their education. The issue opens with an editorial, presented in full in both French and English, by…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Child Abuse, Family Violence, Foreign Countries
Robbin, Debra J.; And Others – Women's Educational Equity Act Publishing Center Digest, 1992
In the primary article, the societal norms that encourage violence against women are reviewed, from both the current and historical viewpoints. Violence in all its forms when used on adolescent women is a contributing factor in many other problems. Both young men and young women learn stereotypes and misinformation about women provoking violence…
Descriptors: Aggression, Battered Women, Child Abuse, Emotional Response
Flowers, R. Barri – 1987
Current statistics on arrests, convictions, and prison inmates and recent studies on violence by women indicate that the number of women who commit violent crimes is rising. Violent crimes include murder, rape, terrorism, gang participation, domestic violence, and prostitution. The first section, "Women Who Kill," discusses women who…
Descriptors: Adults, Crime, Drug Addiction, Family Violence
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Roscoe, Bruce; Callahan, John E. – Adolescence, 1985
Investigated occurrence and forms of violence experienced by high school students (N=204) in families and dating relationships. Findings indicated that high school students encounter a considerable amount of violence in their families. Results also reveal a remarkable similarity between their dating experiences and those of college students,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, College Students, Dating (Social), Family Violence
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Harrier, Laurie K.; Lambert, Paul L.; Ramos, Vincent – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2001
Analysis indicated a combination of physical abuse, sexual abuse, history of familial drug use, family violence, ethnicity, and a history of familial violence were significant in differentiating substance abusers from non-abusers. A separate analysis indicated that the significant variables grouped among three dimensions: violence, history of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Ethnicity, Family Violence
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