@article{ref1,
title="Women's Motives for Violent and Nonviolent Behaviors in Conflicts",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2007",
author="Weston, Rebecca and Marshall, L. L. and Coker, Ann L.",
volume="22",
number="8",
pages="1043-1065",
abstract="Drawing from past research on women's motives for intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration, correlates of women's perpetration, and correlates of nonviolent conflict, we created a scale containing 125 possible motives, representing 14 broad domains (e.g., self-defense, retaliation). Participants were an ethnically diverse sample of women who had perpetrated no physical IPV against their current partner (n = 243), threats but not physical IPV (n = 70), nonsevere physical IPV (n = 193), and at least one act of severe (e.g., choke) physical IPV (n = 93). An exploratory factor analysis yielded a seven-factor solution, representing Partners' Negative Behaviors, Increase Intimacy, Personal Problems, Retaliation, Childhood Experiences, Situation/Mood, and Partners' Personal Problems. Differences by women's IPV perpetration and race and/or ethnicity were tested with means representing these seven factors and a computed variable representing self-defense. Although motives differed by perpetration type, main effects for Partners' Negative Behavior, Personal Problems, Retaliation, and Childhood Experiences were modified by interactions, suggesting ethnicity should be considered when developing interventions.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260507303191",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260507303191"
}