Citation

Vives-Cases C, Gil-Gonzalez D, Carrasco-Portino M. Trauma Violence Abuse 2009; 10(2): 171-180.

Affiliation

Area of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Alicante, Spain, CIBER of Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain Observatory of Public Policies and Health, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1524838008331193

PMID

19447846

Abstract

A systematic review was performed to analyse the characteristics and quality of the studies that consider the relationship between verbal marital conflict and/or male domination in the family and violent behaviour by men towards their partner. Only 11 articles were identified between 1986 and 2006. Most of them find a positive association between male domination in the family and/or verbal marital conflict and violence towards the woman in the couple. However, limitations such as misclassification bias, recall bias, selection bias, external validity and the problem of consistency (overestimation of effect) were acknowledged by authors of this studies. In eight of the 11 studies reviewed, preventive measures or interventions to deal with the problem were recommended. More and better empirical evidence is required in order to provide suitable measures to address the issue of verbal marital conflict and male domination and its influence on IPV.

Language: en