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David Katerndahl1, Sandra Burge, Robert Ferrer
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice
|September 13, 2014
Summary
Daily factors like arguments and emotional distress predict intimate partner violence (IPV). Understanding these complex dynamics can help women identify high-risk situations and take preventive action against abuse.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Sociology
- Public Health
Background:
- Intimate partner violence (IPV) is influenced by individual and relational factors.
- Proximal, daily triggers of abusive events remain under-researched.
Purpose of the Study:
- To analyze daily temporal relationships among environmental, relational, and violence variables in marital relationships.
- To understand the day-to-day dynamics of intimate partner violence.
Main Methods:
- 200 women experiencing IPV completed 12 weeks of daily telephone assessments.
- Cross-correlations and vector autoregressions analyzed same-day and prior-day associations.
Main Results:
- Most environmental and relationship factors correlated with IPV on the same day.
- Prior-day husband's violence, hassles, and emotional upset predicted husband-perpetrated violence.
- Wife's violence was primarily linked to her prior-day violence and alcohol intake.
Conclusions:
- IPV results from complex, interdependent factors with circular causality.
- Simple interventions may be ineffective; understanding couple-specific dynamics is key for prevention.
- Women can use insights into prior-day profiles for preventive action.
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