Citation

Edleson JL, Eisikovits ZC, Guttmann E, Sela-Amit M. J. Fam. Violence 1991; 6(2): 167-182.

Affiliation

University of Minnesota School of Social Work, USA; Director of Evaluation and Research for the Domestic Abuse Project in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Youth Policy Research Center at the University of Haifa, Israel; School of Education, University of Haifa, Is

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00978717

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

As part of a larger ecological analysis of woman battering in Israel, this study examined the combined ability of selected cognitive and interpersonal measures to differentiate among couples in which women were battered and those in which they were not. The ability of these variables to predict men''s physical violence and verbal abuse and women''s verbal abuse was also executed. Results indicate that a combination of low marital adjustment, high levels of conflict over children, and more perceived self-control over one''s life characterized violent men; low marital adjustment and high conflict over child rearing characterized battered women. Both men''s and women''s verbal abuse was moderately predicted by lower marital adjustment while men''s physical violence was predicted by increased levels of conflicts with his partner over child rearing. These findings suggest the importance of marital relationship factors in domestic violence and highlight the need for further study of the interaction between perceived control and marital relationship problems in relationships where men physically abuse women.