1 The University of Akron, OH, USA.
2 Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2019 Aug;34(16):3492-3515. doi: 10.1177/0886260516670183. Epub 2016 Sep 27.
There has been a long-standing debate regarding whether or not there is gender symmetry in intimate partner violence (IPV); however, shelter samples have been understudied thus far. This study investigates the prevalence and predictors of IPV perpetration in a sample of 227 women in battered women's shelters. Participants were asked to complete a number of measures assessing demographics, (4th ed., text rev.; ) diagnoses, traumatic life events, and perpetration and victimization of IPV. Although the vast majority of women in this sample (93%) report perpetrating some form of IPV, few women endorsed violence that was not mutual (5.3%). Furthermore, for every type of IPV assessed, women were victimized significantly more than they perpetrated. Results also indicate that women's perpetration of IPV, and predictors of such perpetration, varied across type, severity, and measurement of violence. However, most IPV outcome variables were predicted by women's experience of victimization. Taken as a whole, these results support the assertion that context matters when examining the relative rates of perpetration as well as its predictors.
关于亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是否存在性别对称，一直存在长期争论；然而，到目前为止，收容所样本的研究还很不足。本研究调查了 227 名受虐妇女庇护所妇女样本中 IPV 实施的流行率和预测因素。参与者被要求完成多项评估人口统计学、（第 4 版，文本修订版；）诊断、创伤性生活事件以及 IPV 实施和受害的措施。尽管该样本中的绝大多数女性（93%）报告实施了某种形式的 IPV，但很少有女性认可非相互的暴力行为（5.3%）。此外，对于评估的每种类型的 IPV，女性受害的程度明显大于实施的程度。结果还表明，女性实施 IPV 的情况及其实施的预测因素因暴力的类型、严重程度和测量方式而异。然而，大多数 IPV 结果变量是由女性受害的经历预测的。总的来说，这些结果支持这样一种说法，即在检查实施率及其预测因素时，背景很重要。
