TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2001//
TI  - Interpersonal Dependency Among Court-Ordered Domestic Violence Offenders: A Descriptive Analysis
JO  - Journal of family violence
A1  - Buttell, Frederick P.
A1  - Jones, Celeste
SP  - 375
EP  - 384
VL  - 16
IS  - 4
N2  - In the effort to improve treatment programs for batterers, researchers have begun to examine the role of interpersonal dependency in the etiology and maintenance of domestic violence. Recent empirical investigations of interpersonal dependency among maritally violent men have discovered that these men exhibit increased levels of interpersonal dependency when compared to nonviolent men. This study examined the level of interpersonal dependency of 105 adult men court-ordered into a treatment program for domestic violence offenses, and 25 nonviolent men. Results indicated no significant difference in level of interpersonal dependency between the court-ordered batterers and the nonviolent men. Possible explanations for the failure of this research to replicate earlier findings were explored and discussed. These findings indicate that more research is needed before the role of interpersonal dependency in the etiology and maintenance of domestic violence can be understood. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Journal of Family Violence, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Springer)  Domestic Violence Offender Domestic Violence Causes Spouse Abuse Offender Spouse Abuse Causes Male Violence Male Offender Adult Offender Adult Male Adult Violence Offender Characteristics Victim Offender Relations Partner Violence Violence Against Women Offender Nonoffender Comparison 02-02<p />
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SN  - 0885-7482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
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