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Substance Abuse as a Precipitant of Wife Abuse Victimizations
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The logistic analysis revealed that, of the ten variables in the model, the most important for distinguishing abused from nonabused women are husband's drug use, a history of paternal violence in womens' family or origin, husband's drunkenness, low income, and wife's drunkens.Abstract:
This study examines the question of whether drug and alcohol use by victims constitutes a risk factor increasing the chances of their being assaulted by their partners. Data from a subsample of the 1985 National Family Violence Survey consisting of the 2,033 female respondents who were currently married or living in a male-female couple relationship are used as the basis of the analysis. The logistic analysis revealed that, of the ten variables in the model, the most important for distinguishing abused from nonabused women are husband's drug use, a history of paternal violence in womens' family or origin, husband's drunkenness, low income, and wife's drunkenness. Women who abuse alcohol are more likely to be victims of minor marital violence, but female substance abuse of any type is not a significant factor in severe violence.read more
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Physical and mental health effects of intimate partner violence for men and women.
Ann L. Coker,Keith E. Davis,Ileana Arias,Sujata Desai,Maureen Sanderson,Heather M. Brandt,Paige Hall Smith +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed data from the National Violence Against Women Survey (NVAWS) of women and men aged 18 to 65 and found that both physical and psychological IPV are associated with significant physical and mental health consequences for both male and female victims.
Physical and Mental Health Effects of Intimate Partner Violence for Men and Women
TL;DR: For both men and women, physical IPV victimization was associated with increased risk of current poor health; depressive symptoms; substance use; and developing a chronic disease, chronic mental illness, and injury.
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Physical Health Consequences of Physical and Psychological Intimate Partner Violence
TL;DR: For instance, the authors found that psychological IPV was associated with a number of adverse health outcomes, including a disability preventing work (adjusted RR, 1.49), arthritis, chronic pain, constipation, stammering, chronic pelvic pain, and spastic colon.
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Intimate partner physical abuse perpetration and victimization risk factors: A meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined evidence from 85 studies to identify risk factors most strongly related to intimate partner physical abuse perpetration and victimization, and calculated effect sizes for 16 perpetration risk factors and 9 victimization risk factors.
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Alcohol and intimate partner violence: a meta-analytic review.
TL;DR: There was a larger association of alcohol and aggression in clinical versus non-clinical samples and when measures assessed more severe alcohol problems, and the magnitude of the effect sizes varied significantly as a function of the type of sample and type of alcohol measure selected.
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TL;DR: The Conflict Tactics (CT) scales as discussed by the authors measure the use of reasoning, verbal aggression, and violence within the family in intra-family conflict and violence research, and the CT scales are designed for measuring the use qf Reasoning, VerbalAggression, and Violence within families.
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Societal Change and Change in Family Violence from 1975 to 1985 As Revealed by Two National Surveys
TL;DR: In this article, a comparison between two national surveys conducted in 1975 and 1985 on the rates of physical violence against children and spouses is presented, showing that physical child abuse decreased by 47% from 1975 to 1985; wife beating decreased by 27% while severe assaults declined by 4.3%.