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Published on: May 10, 2019
Race/ethnicity, religious involvement, and domestic violence
Christopher G Ellison1, Jenny A Trinitapoli, Kristin L Anderson
1University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
Abstract:
The authors explored the relationship between religious involvement and intimate partner violence by analyzing data from the first wave of the National Survey of Families and Households. They found that: (a) religious involvement is correlated with reduced levels of domestic violence; (b) levels of domestic violence vary by race/ethnicity; (c) the effects of religious involvement on domestic violence vary by race/ethnicity; and (d) religious involvement, specifically church attendance, protects against domestic violence, and this protective effect is stronger for African American men and women and for Hispanic men, groups that, for a variety of reasons, experience elevated risk for this type of violence.
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