Citation

Forgey MA, Badger L. Violence Vict. 2010; 25(1): 45-61.

Affiliation

Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University, New York, NY 10023, USA. Forgey@fordham.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Springer Publishing)

DOI

10.1891/0886-6708.25.1.45

PMID

20229693

Abstract

A sample of 248 enlisted active duty females married to civilian spouses completed a self-report survey that asked about their own and their spouse's violence. The survey also asked about their sex-role attitudes, marital satisfaction, alcohol use, childhood trauma, and depression. Results identified patterns of intimate partner violence and their relationship to the psychosocial risk factors. Females experiencing severe bidirectional violence were likely to be the most depressed and to have a history of child sexual abuse. Females experiencing minor bidirectional violence did not share any of the psychosocial risk factors found for severe bidirectional violence. Females perpetrating unilateral violence toward their spouses were found to be as satisfied in their marriages as nonviolent couples and less depressed than the females experiencing bidirectional violence.

Language: en