Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
The University of Akron, OH, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2022 Jan;37(1-2):33-57. doi: 10.1177/0886260520907354. Epub 2020 Feb 26.
Addressing women's intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration is essential not only to their partners' safety but also to their own as, for women who are victims of IPV, their IPV perpetration may be a risk factor for their own revictimization. Although many studies have examined risk factors for women's IPV perpetration, results diverge with regard to whether demographic and mental health variables are reliable predictors. Results of several studies have demonstrated that when IPV victimization is examined concurrently with perpetration, demographic and mental health variables are no longer significant correlates. However, this research has been limited in that the type of IPV examined has been restricted to physical, psychological, and sexual abuse. In addition, some demographic variables (e.g., sexual orientation) have yet to be adequately examined. The current study extends this literature by concurrently assessing demographic, mental health, and IPV victimization variables as correlates of IPV perpetration among undergraduate women. Furthermore, the current study examined a wide range of IPV types (i.e., threats of physical abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological maltreatment, stalking, cyberstalking). Among a final sample of 398 undergraduate women at a Midwestern public university, results demonstrated that while all variables (i.e., demographic, mental health, IPV victimization) were correlated with at least one type of IPV perpetration, only IPV victimization remained a unique significant correlate of perpetration for each of the six IPV perpetration types when variables were analyzed concurrently in hierarchical regression models. Demographic and mental health variables were nonsignificant correlates for most IPV perpetration types. These results corroborate previous studies and provide additional evidence that targeting women's own victimization, safety planning, and de-escalation may be useful at decreasing violence against women's partners as well as women's own risk for revictimization.
解决女性亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的实施问题不仅对其伴侣的安全至关重要，对她们自身的安全也同样重要，因为对于遭受 IPV 的女性来说，她们的 IPV 实施可能是她们再次受害的一个风险因素。尽管许多研究都探讨了女性 IPV 实施的风险因素，但关于人口统计学和心理健康变量是否是可靠的预测因素，结果却存在分歧。几项研究的结果表明，当同时检查 IPV 受害和实施情况时，人口统计学和心理健康变量不再是显著的相关因素。然而，这项研究存在一定的局限性，因为所检查的 IPV 类型仅限于身体、心理和性虐待。此外，一些人口统计学变量（例如，性取向）尚未得到充分研究。本研究通过同时评估人口统计学、心理健康和 IPV 受害变量，扩展了这一文献，将其作为本科女性 IPV 实施的相关因素。此外，本研究还检查了广泛的 IPV 类型（即身体虐待威胁、身体虐待、性虐待、心理虐待、跟踪、网络跟踪）。在中西部一所公立大学的 398 名本科女性的最终样本中，结果表明，虽然所有变量（即人口统计学、心理健康、IPV 受害）都与至少一种 IPV 实施类型相关，但只有当变量在分层回归模型中同时进行分析时，IPV 受害仍然是六种 IPV 实施类型中每一种的唯一显著相关因素。人口统计学和心理健康变量对于大多数 IPV 实施类型都是不重要的相关因素。这些结果与之前的研究一致，并提供了额外的证据，表明针对女性自身的受害、安全计划和降级可能有助于减少针对女性伴侣的暴力行为，以及女性自身再次受害的风险。
