University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2021 Dec;36(23-24):11035-11057. doi: 10.1177/0886260519897332. Epub 2020 Jan 6.
In China, most intimate partner violence (IPV) research focuses on male perpetration and female victimization, whereas studies on dating violence and female IPV perpetration are less common. Although research on female IPV perpetration in China has surfaced recently, there have been limited studies examining factors related to female perpetration in dating relationships in China. In the current research, we sought to examine how relationship factors, including anger management, communication problems, relationship conflict, and relationship distress, are linked with female physical and psychological IPV perpetration. We included 857 female college students in three regions in China from the International Dating Violence database. We found that Chinese women's anger management skills and communication problems were both significantly associated with physical and psychological IPV perpetration on both minor and severe levels. Furthermore, we found that relationship conflict was significantly associated with minor and severe physical abuse perpetration and severe psychological abuse perpetration. Anger management skills moderated the negative effects of relationship conflict on minor physical IPV perpetration as well as minor and severe psychological IPV perpetration. Anger management skills also moderated the negative effects of relationship distress on minor and severe physical IPV perpetration among Chinese women. Our findings suggest that it may be important to explore the role of college women's anger management skills, communication problems, and conflict resolution skills in their dating relationships, as well as to develop female-based intervention programs to increase Chinese college women's relationship skills to reduce their levels of IPV perpetration.
在中国，大多数亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）研究都集中在男性施暴和女性受害上，而关于约会暴力和女性 IPV 施暴的研究则较少。尽管最近中国出现了一些关于女性 IPV 施暴的研究，但很少有研究探讨中国约会关系中与女性施暴相关的因素。在当前的研究中，我们试图研究关系因素，包括愤怒管理、沟通问题、关系冲突和关系困扰，如何与女性身体和心理 IPV 施暴有关。我们从国际约会暴力数据库中纳入了来自中国三个地区的 857 名女大学生。我们发现，中国女性的愤怒管理技能和沟通问题都与身体和心理 IPV 施暴的轻度和重度水平显著相关。此外，我们发现关系冲突与轻度和重度身体虐待施暴以及严重心理虐待施暴显著相关。愤怒管理技能调节了关系冲突对轻度身体 IPV 施暴以及轻度和重度心理 IPV 施暴的负面影响。愤怒管理技能也调节了关系困扰对中国女性轻度和重度身体 IPV 施暴的负面影响。我们的研究结果表明，探索女大学生的愤怒管理技能、沟通问题和冲突解决技能在她们的约会关系中的作用，以及制定以女性为基础的干预计划，以提高中国女大学生的关系技能，从而降低她们的 IPV 施暴水平，可能很重要。
