Citation

Sullivan TP, Titus JA, Holt LJ, Swan SC, Fisher BS, Snow DL. Violence Against Women 2010; 16(1): 84-98.

Affiliation

Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. tami.sullivan@yale.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801209353575

PMID

19949230

PMCID

PMC2967017

Abstract

This study is among the first attempts to address a frequently articulated, yet unsubstantiated claim that sample inclusion criteria based on women's physical aggression or victimization will yield different distributions of severity and type of partner violence and injury. Independent samples of African American women participated in separate studies based on either inclusion criterion of women's physical aggression or victimization. Between-groups comparisons showed that samples did not differ in physical, sexual, or psychological aggression; physical, sexual, or psychological victimization; inflicted or sustained injury. Therefore, inclusion criterion based on physical aggression or victimization did not yield unique samples of "aggressors" and "victims."

Language: en