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ERIC Number: EJ988800
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-May
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0886-2605
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Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration by Court-Ordered Men: Distinctions among Subtypes of Physical Violence, Sexual Violence, Psychological Abuse, and Stalking
Hall, Jeffrey E.; Walters, Mikel L.; Basile, Kathleen C.
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, v27 n7 p1374-1395 May 2012
This study continues previous work documenting the structure of violence perpetrated by males against their female intimate partners. It assesses the construct validity of a measurement model depicting associations among eight subtypes of perpetration: moderate physical violence, severe physical violence, forced or coerced sexual violence, sexual violence where consent was not possible, emotional/verbal psychological abuse, dominance/isolation psychological abuse, interactional contacts/surveillance related stalking, and stalking involving mediated contacts. Data were obtained from a sample of 340 men arrested for physical assault of a female spouse or partner, and court ordered into batterer intervention programs. Men were surveyed before starting the intervention. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) supported the validity of model as evidenced by good model to data fit and satisfaction of requirements for fit statistics. In addition, the eight factor solution was characterized by a slightly better model to data fit than a four factor higher order solution described in the author's previous work. Latent variable correlations across the broader categories of intimate partner violence (IPV) revealed that the violence subtypes were mostly moderately positively correlated and ranged from 0.381 (emotional/verbal psychological abuse with interactional contacts/surveillance related stalking) to 0.795 (dominance/isolation psychological with abuse with forced sex). Future studies should determine whether there are distinct risk factors and health outcomes associated with each of the eight IPV perpetration subtypes and identify possible patterns of co-occurrence. (Contains 2 notes, 1 figure, and 2 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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