Citation

Grose RG, Grabe S. Violence Against Women 2014; 20(8): 972-993.

Affiliation

University of California, Santa Cruz.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801214546231

PMID

25125492

Abstract

This study offers a feminist psychology analysis of various aspects of relationship power and control and their relative explanatory contribution to understanding physical, psychological, and sexual violence against women.

FINDINGS from structured interviews with 345 women from rural Nicaragua (Mage = 44) overwhelmingly demonstrate that measures of power and control reflecting interpersonal relationship dynamics have the strongest predictive power for explaining violence when compared in multivariate analyses to several of the more commonly used measures. These findings have implications for future research and the evaluation of interventions designed to decrease levels of violence against women.

Language: en