Citation

Stith SM, Farley SC. J. Fam. Violence 1993; 8(2): 183-201.

Affiliation

Department of Family and Child Development, Virginia Tech, Northern Virginia Graduate Center, 22042 Falls Church, Virginia; Department of Counseling Psychology, University of Utah, 84102 Salt Lake City, UT

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00981767

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study presents and tests a predictive model of severe marital violence by men based on social learning theory and previous research. Results of the path analytic procedure suggest that sex-role egalitarianism and approval of marital violence both have direct effects on the use of severe marital violence. At the same time, sex-role egalitarianism and the observation of marital violence as a child have indirect effects by several paths. Egalitarianism has an indirect negative effect on use of severe violence which depends upon approval of marital violence. Observation of marital violence has a negative effect on self-esteem which influences marital stress and level of alcoholism, both of which have an effect on approval of marital violence. Observation of violence as a child also has a direct effect on approval of violence and a negative effect on sex-role egalitarianism.