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 Male-Perpetrated Domestic Violence: Testing a Series of Multifactorial Family Models (From Violence Against Women and Family Violence: Developments in Research, Practice, and Policy, 2004, Bonnie Fisher, ed. -- See
NCJ-199701)
NCJ Number
              199712

Author(s)
          Lynda A. King, Daniel W. King
Date Published

January 2004
Length
              13 pages
Annotation
              Using family data from the National Vietnam Veterans Readjustment
Study (NVVRS), this study identified risk factors associated with male-perpetrated domestic violence and accompanying partner
mental distress as well as child behavior problems.
Abstract
              The congressionally mandated NVVRS was conducted in the mid- to
late 1980's. Its primary purpose was to document rates of
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other adjustment
difficulties among veterans who fought in the Vietnam War. The
study involved more than 4,000 participants and consisted of a
number of components, including an extensive assessment of family
life among community-residing male veteran-female partner dyads.
Using this subset of the larger database, the current study
tested a series of models to obtain information about the antecedents, correlates, and consequences of violence against women. Data were obtained on four categories of variables related to the veteran's background: his account of family-of-origin characteristics and childhood experiences; his conduct and behavioral problems prior to age 15; his exposure to war-zone
stressors; and his PTSD symptomatology and associated alcohol abuse. Face-to-face, structured interviews, with some
supplementary self-report measures, were administered to participants throughout the United States. For the 2 study components in which ratings of child behavior problems were involved, sample sizes were 260 and 254; for the 2 components
that involved couple interactions, sample sizes were 367 and 372.
The findings provide support for the guiding trauma-focused
perspective, i.e., that exposure to highly stressful life events
in a man's childhood or early adulthood and their psychological
consequences may explain later partner battering and concomitant
partner psychological distress and child behavior problems. As a
general statement, there was apparently a "chaining" of variables
depicting pathways by which a man's adverse childhood experiences
were linked to difficulties in his subsequent marriage and family
life. There was a link between trauma exposure (combat and threat
in the war zone) and postwar PTSD and alcohol abuse, which in
turn were linked to domestic violence. Thus, the pattern of
associations among the veteran's childhood family dysfunction,
childhood antisocial behavior, combat exposure, and perceived
threat in the war zone were particularly noteworthy, especially
in the context of revictimization interpretation. Implications
are drawn for practitioners and for future research. 3 exhibits
and 18 references
      
  
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