An Exploration of How Women Experience the Process of Intimate Partner Violence in Relationships Characterised by Bi-Directional Aggression.

Partner Violence ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Policy Research ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Preventive Action ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Future Directions ◽

Widespread Access ◽

<p>This qualitative study explored how women in New Zealand experienced the process of intimate partner violence in relationships with men, which were characterised by bi-directional aggression. Using thematic analysis, semi-structured interviews with 11 women who experienced bi-directionally aggressive relationships were analysed and four themes were identified that encompassed 1) the foundations of bi-directional aggression; 2) the nature of bi-directional aggression within the relationship; 3) how the women were stuck in the relationship, and; 4) moving forward. The findings indicate how the vulnerabilities to bi-directional aggression can develop from early life and perpetuate and exacerbate over time in the context of the relationship dynamic. This highlights the need to implement preventive action to support adaptive self-regulation development in young people and families, provide education about bi-directional aggression and widespread access to support and treatment resources for all genders. Further implications and future directions for policy, research and practice regarding bi-directional aggression are discussed.</p>

Intimate Partner Violence Forgiveness Dynamics in the Context of Men’s Positions as Victims and Perpetrators: A Dyadic Perspective

Journal of Family Issues ◽

10.1177/0192513x20946340 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 0192513X2094634

Author(s):

Zrihan Weitzman A. ◽

Buchbinder E.

Keyword(s):

Partner Violence ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Status Quo ◽

Self Perception ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Male Batterers ◽

Female Victims ◽

The Status ◽

Recent years have seen increased awareness of the need to understand forgiveness in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV). The present qualitative study focused on how male batterers and female victims perceived and interacted with forgiveness. The study was based on in-depth semi-structured interviews with 15 spouses who had been married for between 4 and 30 years. The study findings show that the male batterers perceived forgiveness confusingly out of their dual self-perception as both perpetrator and victim. However, whether as perpetrator or victim, they clung to the position of forgiver. This dual perception blurred the spouses’ perpetrator and victim roles as well as the gap between seeking and granting forgiveness. Both spouses tended to be trapped in their own self-perception as forgiver and hence, the issue of forgiveness preserved the status quo in the relationship and the preservation of power experience.

Abusive Men's Use of Children to Control Their Partners and Ex-Partners

European Psychologist ◽

10.1027/1016-9040.12.1.54 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 54-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 49

Author(s):

Marisa L. Beeble ◽

Deborah Bybee ◽

Cris M. Sullivan

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Emotional Abuse ◽

The United States ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Anecdotal Evidence ◽

Multiple Variables ◽

While research has found that millions of children in the United States are exposed to their mothers being battered, and that many are themselves abused as well, little is known about the ways in which children are used by abusers to manipulate or harm their mothers. Anecdotal evidence suggests that perpetrators use children in a variety of ways to control and harm women; however, no studies to date have empirically examined the extent of this occurring. Therefore, the current study examined the extent to which survivors of abuse experienced this, as well as the conditions under which it occurred. Interviews were conducted with 156 women who had experienced recent intimate partner violence. Each of these women had at least one child between the ages of 5 and 12. Most women (88%) reported that their assailants had used their children against them in varying ways. Multiple variables were found to be related to this occurring, including the relationship between the assailant and the children, the extent of physical and emotional abuse used by the abuser against the woman, and the assailant's court-ordered visitation status. Findings point toward the complex situational conditions by which assailants use the children of their partners or ex-partners to continue the abuse, and the need for a great deal more research in this area.

Traumatic Stress Symptoms Mediate the Relationship between Violence Exposure and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Young Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e516542013-229 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Laura Miller ◽

Kathryn Howell ◽

Sandra Graham

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Behavior Problems ◽

Traumatic Stress ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Externalizing Behavior ◽

Violence Exposure ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Stress Symptoms ◽

Evaluating interventions with victims of intimate partner violence: a community psychology approach

BMC Women s Health ◽

10.1186/s12905-021-01268-7 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Cinzia Albanesi ◽

Carlo Tomasetto ◽

Veronica Guardabassi

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Psychological Health ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Process Model ◽

Professional Training ◽

Phenomenological Approach ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The Impact

Abstract Purpose Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is one of the most common forms of domestic violence, with profound implication for women's physical and psychological health. In this text we adopted the Empowerment Process Model (EPM) by Cattaneo and Goodman (Psychol Violence 5(1):84–94) to analyse interventions provided to victims of IPV by a Support Centre for Women (SCW) in Italy, and understand its contribution to women’s empowerment. Method We conducted semi-structured interviews with ten women who had been enrolled in a program for IPV survivors at a SCW in the past three years. The interviews focused on the programs’ aims, actions undertaken to reach them, and the impact on the women’s lives, and were analysed using an interpretative phenomenological approach. Results Results showed that the interventions provided by the SWC were adapted according to women's needs. In the early phases, women’s primary aim was ending violence, and the intervention by the SCW was deemed as helpful to the extent it provided psychological support, protection and safe housing. Women’s aims subsequently moved to self-actualisation and economic and personal independence which required professional training, internships, and social support. Although satisfying the majority of the women’s expectations, other important needs (e.g., economic support or legal services) were poorly addressed, and cooperation with other services (e.g., police or social services) was sometimes deemed as critical. Conclusions By evaluating a program offered by a SCW to IPV survivors through the lens of the EPM model, we found that women deemed the program as effective when both individual resources and empowerment processes were promoted. Strengths, limitations and implications are discussed.

The Effects of Religion and Modernization on Egyptian Women’s IPV Attitudes

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/1077801220978802 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122097880

Author(s):

Golshan Golriz ◽

Skye Miner

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Latent Class Analysis ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Latent Class ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Wife Beating ◽

Multinomial Regression ◽

This article uses the 2008 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey to explore the relationship between religion and women’s attitudes toward intimate partner violence (IPV). It also asks whether modernization, as measured by having a higher education or living in an urban area, can mediate or moderate this relationship. Using latent class analysis to create categories of women’s wife-beating attitudes, and multinomial regression to explore the relationship between religion, education, and urbanity, we find no significant relationship between being Muslim and justifying wife beating. Our data further suggest that neither education nor urbanity mediate or moderate this relationship.

Coercive Controlling Behaviors and Reporting Physical Intimate Partner Violence in Australian Women: An Exploration

Violence Against Women ◽

10.1177/1077801220985932 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 107780122098593

Author(s):

Brittany Patafio ◽

Peter Miller ◽

Arlene Walker ◽

Kerri Coomber ◽

Ashlee Curtis ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Partner Violence ◽

Online Survey ◽

Physical Violence ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Physical Intimate Partner Violence ◽

Differential Utility ◽

And Control ◽

The Relationship ◽

Controlling Behaviors

This study explores two approaches to measuring coercive controlling behaviors (CCBs)—counting how many different CCB types and examining the frequency of each CCB experienced—to examine their utility in explaining the relationship between CCBs and physical intimate partner violence (IPV). Australian women aged 18–68 years ( n = 739; Mage = 31.58, SDage = 11.76) completed an online survey. Count and frequency CCB approaches yielded similar significant associations with increased physical IPV. Both approaches suggest that frightening behaviors in particular are significantly indicative of also experiencing physical IPV; however, when you count CCB types, public name-calling becomes important, whereas when you examine the frequency of each CCB type, jealousy/possessiveness becomes important. These findings suggest differential utility between measures of CCBs, which examine the frequency of specific CCB types and which count CCB types, and that both approaches are useful in understanding how coercion and control relate to physical violence within intimate relationships.

The relationship between intimate partner violence and PTSD: An application of Cox regression with time-varying covariates

Journal of Traumatic Stress ◽

10.1023/a:1024418119254 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 16 (4) ◽

pp. 371-380 ◽

Cited By ~ 21

Author(s):

Mieko Yoshihama ◽

Julie Horrocks

Keyword(s):

Partner Violence ◽

Cox Regression ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Time Varying ◽

Time Varying Covariates ◽

A Meta-Analysis of Latinx Acculturation and Intimate Partner Violence

Trauma Violence & Abuse ◽

10.1177/1524838018801327 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 (4) ◽

pp. 844-854 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Miriam J. Alvarez ◽

Sandra Oviedo Ramirez ◽

Gabriel Frietze ◽

Craig Field ◽

Michael A. Zárate

Keyword(s):

Partner Violence ◽

Fixed Effects ◽

Meta Analysis ◽

Male Partner ◽

Intimate Partner ◽

Health Concern ◽

Independent Effect ◽

Subgroup Analyses ◽

Objective: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious public health concern that affects many Latinx couples. The present study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to quantitatively assess acculturation as a predictor of IPV among Latinxs and subgroup analyses to evaluate the effect size by gender and type of acculturation measure. Method: The meta-analysis implemented the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses guidelines to retrieve studies assessing the relationship between acculturation and intimate partner victimization among foreign-born and U.S.-born Latinx adults. A fixed effects model (FEM) and a random effects model (REM) were employed. Additional subgroup analyses examined the strength of the relationship by gender and type of acculturation measure. Results: The meta-analysis included 27 independent effect sizes across 21 studies. An REM yielded a weighted average correlation of .11 (95% confidence interval [.02, .20]). The strength of the correlation differed by scale and ranged from −.003 to .47. For both men and women, higher acculturation was associated with increased IPV. Conclusions: Our results yielded three important findings: (1) the overall effect of acculturation on IPV is relatively small, (2) acculturation differentially influences male-to-female and female-to-male partner violence, and (3) the strength of the correlation between acculturation and IPV differs by scale. This body of work provides evidence for the effect of acculturation on IPV, with potential implications for interventions targeting Latinxs.