Citation

Felson RB, Outlaw MC. Violence Vict. 2007; 22(4): 387-407.

Affiliation

Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. rbf7@psu.edu

Erratum On

Violence Vict. 22(6)

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

17691548

Abstract

The role of the control motive in marital violence is examined using data on current and former marriages from the Survey of Violence and Threats of Violence Against Women and Men. The findings indicate no support for the position that husbands engage in more marital violence than wives because they are more controlling. In former marriages, we observe statistical interactions between gender and control: former husbands who were controlling or jealous were particularly likely to be verbally aggressive and to engage in violence. The controlling husbands (present and former), however, are not particularly likely to engage in violence that is frequent, injurious, or unprovoked. The evidence suggests that husband and wives may differ in their methods of control but not their motivation to control.

An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 22(6) of Violence and Victims -- In the article, the data points for male and female partners are misidentified in Figure 1 (p. 398). They should be reversed: The male partner data points (indicated by triangles) are actually the female partner data points, and the female partner data points (indicated by squares) are actually the male partner data points.


Language: en