Griffiths Elizabeth, Yule Carolyn, Gartner Rosemary
1 Rutgers University-Newark, NJ, USA.
2 University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Violence Against Women. 2018 May;24(6):697-717. doi: 10.1177/1077801217711267. Epub 2017 Jun 16.
Violence between social equals differs in character from violence between persons in asymmetrical relationships. Specifically, issues of contention motivating violence vary by the relative status of opponents, such that violence over symbolic issues is more common between symmetrical than asymmetrical opponents. Recent studies have substantiated these predictions in nonpartner relationships. Using data from interviews of incarcerated women, this study explores how intimate partner violence compares with violence between nonpartner opponents. We find that intimate partner violence is more likely to involve symbolic issues compared with violence between all kinds of nonpartner opponents. Consequently, intimate partnerships might be viewed as hypersymmetrical.
社会地位平等者之间的暴力在性质上不同于非对称关系中人与人之间的暴力。具体而言，引发暴力的争议问题因对手的相对地位而异，以至于在地位对称的对手之间，因象征性问题引发的暴力比地位不对称的对手之间更为常见。最近的研究已在非伴侣关系中证实了这些预测。本研究利用对被监禁女性的访谈数据，探讨亲密伴侣暴力与非伴侣对手之间的暴力有何不同。我们发现，与各类非伴侣对手之间的暴力相比，亲密伴侣暴力更有可能涉及象征性问题。因此，亲密伴侣关系可能被视为高度对称的关系。
