Citation

Whitaker MP. Violence Against Women 2014; 20(11): 1338-1359.

Affiliation

University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA Pippin.whitaker@sc.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801214552854

PMID

25348945

Abstract

This study explores how community factors moderate men's individual risk for physical and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. The sample of 604 male first-semester undergraduate students supports a connection between county-level protective and risk factors, an individual risk factor, and IPV perpetration. For each unit increase in the proportion of women in powerful positions within a county, there was a 71% decrease in the risk that control-seeking respondents would perpetrate physical IPV, controlling for other factors including population density and violent crime. This article presents a multilevel analysis using hierarchical generalized linear modeling and discusses practice and research implications.

Language: en