@article{ref1,
title="Personality and Situational Correlates of Self-reported Reasons for Intimate Partner Violence among Women versus Men Referred for Batterers' Intervention",
journal="Behavioral sciences and the law",
year="2011",
author="Ross, Jody M.",
volume="29",
number="5",
pages="711-727",
abstract="This study examines personality and situational correlates of self-reported reasons for intimate partner violence (IPV) among women and men court-ordered to batterers' intervention as IPV offenders. Women endorsed self-defense and men retaliation as their primary reasons for IPV. Both also endorsed emotion dysregulation as a reason for much of their violence. Women's partner violence was largely, but not exclusively, situationally motivated. Women's reasons for violence also related significantly to self-reported borderline personality symptomology. Men's reasons for IPV related primarily to their self-reported antisocial and borderline personality traits, not to situational factors. Thus, the IPV of some women and some men may be considered &quot;characterological,&quot; in that it reflects something about the individual's character or personality. Control or domination of one's partner was not a primary reason for violence among women or men, despite the assumption on which many batterer intervention programs are based, that IPV is primarily a power and control tactic. Clinical implications and recommendations for future research are provided. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0735-3936",
doi="10.1002/bsl.1004",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bsl.1004"
}