Citation

Rhodes KV, Iwashyna TJ. Behav. Change 2009; 26(3): 174-189.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Australian Behaviour Modification Association, Publisher Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1375/bech.26.3.174

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The mental health correlates of male aggression or violence against an intimate partner (IPV) are examined using exploratory cluster analysis for 81 men who self-reported risk factors for IPV perpetration on a computer-based health risk assessment. Men disclosing IPV perpetration could be meaningfully subdivided into two different clusters: a high pathology/high violence cluster, and lower pathology/low violence cluster. These groups appear to perpetrate intimate partner violence in differing psychoemotional contexts and could be robustly identified using multiple distinct analytic methods. If men who self-disclose IPV in a health care setting can be meaningfully subdivided based on mental health symptoms and level of violence, it lends support for potential new targeted approaches to preventing partner violence perpetration by both women and men. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)