Margolin Gayla, Gordis Elana B
Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061, USA.
Violence Vict. 2003 Jun;18(3):243-58. doi: 10.1891/vivi.2003.18.3.243.
Evidence suggests that marital aggression and parent-to-child aggression sometimes occur within the same family, but little is known about why certain families are vulnerable to multiple forms of family aggression. According to family systems theory, negative affect in one family relationship can spread to other family relationships. According to family stress theory, aversive circumstances increase families' vulnerability to disruption and conflict. Based on these theories, the present study tests the hypothesis that cumulative family stresses potentiate the association between marital aggression and parents' child abuse potential. In a series of additive interactional models, husband-to-wife aggression was linked to husbands' and wives' child abuse potential in a context of both high financial stress and high parenting stress but was not linked in a context of low stress. Wife-to-husband aggression was linked to wives', but not husbands', child abuse potential in a context of high stress. These results highlight the potential role of contextual factors in the pervasiveness of aggressive exchanges across multiple family subsystems.
有证据表明，婚姻暴力和亲子暴力有时会在同一个家庭中发生，但对于为何某些家庭容易出现多种形式的家庭暴力，我们却知之甚少。根据家庭系统理论，一种家庭关系中的负面影响会蔓延到其他家庭关系中。根据家庭压力理论，恶劣环境会增加家庭破裂和冲突的易感性。基于这些理论，本研究检验了这样一个假设：累积的家庭压力会增强婚姻暴力与父母虐待儿童可能性之间的关联。在一系列累加交互模型中，在高经济压力和高养育压力的背景下，丈夫对妻子的暴力与丈夫和妻子虐待儿童的可能性相关，但在低压力背景下则不相关。在高压力背景下，妻子对丈夫的暴力与妻子（而非丈夫）虐待儿童的可能性相关。这些结果凸显了情境因素在跨多个家庭子系统的攻击性互动普遍性中的潜在作用。
