Witnessing interparental violence as a child and adulthood attitudes toward aggression and violence
Year: 2005
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Witnessing interparental violence as a child and adulthood attitudes toward aggression and violence Considering all instances of violent crimes, domestic violence (DV) is the most common (Widom, 1989).The way in which researchers define DV is inconsistent across the literature in this area, often making the study of DV complicated.For example, Straus, Gelles, & Steinmetz (1980) define abusive violence as, "an act which has the high potential for injuring for the person being hit" (Straus et al., 1980).These acts can include punching, kicking, biting, hitting with an object, beating, shooting, attempting to shoot, and stabbing or attempting to stab (Straus et ah, 1980).This definition focuses on the intent of the perpetrator, but fails to account for the actual harm done to the recipient o f the act (e.g., someone is punched, but not hurt, versus someone is punched and their jaw breaks).Thus, even with the definitions of violence proposed by esteemed researchers in the field, limitations are noted.One specific form of DV is spousal abuse.Spousal abuse is a behavior pattern that may occur in physical, emotional, psychological and sexual forms (Kashani, Daniel, Dandoy, & Holcomb, 1992).In a representative study of American families in the United States, approximately 16%, or 1 in 6 married couples had engaged in at least one violent act against their partner in the year prior to the study (Straus et al., 1980;Straus & Gelles, 1990).Asking respondents in this study to consider the entire course of their marriage, this figure rises to 28%, or between 1 in 3 to 1 in 4 couples that engaged in spousal abuse (Straus et al., 1980).The most common violent acts among m arried couples in this study were pushing, shoving and slapping, and the least common violent act was using a knife or using a gun against a spouse (Straus et al., 1980).Of the couples
Source: The Mathematics Enthusiast
Author: Diana Eleonora Maria Marchetti
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2473235578