@article{ref1,
title="Religious Commitment, Peace Activism, and Marital Violence in Quaker Families",
journal="Journal of marriage and family",
year="1986",
author="Brutz, Judith L. and Allen, Craig M.",
volume="48",
number="3",
pages="491-502",
abstract="Previous research using affiliation as a measure of religious influence suggests a lack of relationship between religion and marital violence. However, religious commitment, another measure of religious influence, is found in the present study of 290 Quaker spouses to differentiate levels of both communication and physical violence for both wives and husbands. High levels of peace activism are associated with low levels of marital violence for wives but with high levels for husbands, which suggests that commitment to Quaker principles is confounded with traditional norms of nonaggressiveness for Quaker wives and male aggressiveness for Quaker husbands. These findings suggest that (a) commitment, not affiliation, is the more appropriate indicator of religious influence and (b) there are important gender-related differences in the meanings attached to religious experience and violence. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1986. Copyright © 1986 by the National Council on Family Relations)Religious BeliefsReligionReligious FactorsPartner ViolenceViolence Against WomenActivist MovementDomestic Violence CausesDomestic Violence OffenderPhysical AggressionAggression CausesAdult AggressionAdult FemaleAdult MaleAdult OffenderAdult ViolenceFemale AggressionFemale OffenderFemale ViolenceMale AggressionMale OffenderMale ViolenceGender DifferencesSpouse Abuse OffenderSpouse Abuse Causes05-05<p />",
language="en",
issn="0022-2445",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}