Citation

Margolin L, Larson OW. J. Fam. Violence 1988; 3(3): 209-224.

Affiliation

Department of Home Economics, University of Iowa, 52242 Iowa City, Iowa; Family Life Development Center, Cornell University, 14853 Ithaca, New York

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/BF00988976

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This study examines the association between parents'' violence toward children and their involuntary participation in family work. Involuntary participation in family work is conceptualized as a form of role strain measured by the disparity between the amount of responsibility husbands and wives would prefer to assume in the home and the amount of family work they actually perform. The prediction guiding this research is that differences of this kind are more associated with mothers' violence than fathers'. Regression analysis with a national sample of parents supports this hypothesis. Nonetheless, the association between such role strain and violence is quite weak, suggesting that additional research is required in formulating and measuring this relationship.