Ackerman Jeff, Field Layton
Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
Violence Vict. 2011;26(6):703-24. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.26.6.703.
Our research examined the association between intimate partner violence and relationship satisfaction among victims. The negative association between victimization and relationship satisfaction was substantially stronger for females than for males. Comparisons between respondents reporting about same-sex relationships with those reporting about opposite-sex relationships provided evidence that the amplified victimization/satisfaction association among female victims is a victim-gender effect rather than an actor-gender effect. In other words, our findings suggest that aggression harms the quality of the intimate partnerships of females much more so than the partnerships of males regardless of whether a male or a female is the perpetrator. We supplemented dialogue about the direct implications of our findings with discussions about how these results may raise conceptual questions about the adequacy of the instruments scholars use to study partner aggression.
我们的研究考察了亲密伴侣暴力与受害者关系满意度之间的关联。受害经历与关系满意度之间的负相关在女性中比在男性中显著更强。报告同性关系的受访者与报告异性关系的受访者之间的比较提供了证据，表明女性受害者中受害经历/满意度关联的增强是受害者性别效应而非施害者性别效应。换句话说，我们的研究结果表明，无论施害者是男性还是女性，攻击行为对女性亲密关系质量的损害都远甚于对男性亲密关系质量的损害。我们在讨论研究结果直接影响的基础上，补充了关于这些结果如何可能引发有关学者用于研究伴侣攻击行为的工具是否充分的概念性问题的讨论。
