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Early antecedents of spouse abuse
Author(s) -
von der Pahlen Bettina,
Öst Björn,
Lindfors Bodil,
Lindman Ralf
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
aggressive behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.223
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1098-2337
pISSN - 0096-140X
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1997)23:4<239::aid-ab2>3.0.co;2-f
Subject(s) - spouse , psychology , context (archaeology) , injury prevention , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , suicide prevention , domestic violence , occupational safety and health , social environment , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , medical emergency , paleontology , pathology , sociology , anthropology , political science , law , biology
Males taken into police custody for reported spouse abuse (n = 19) and a matched control group (n = 19) were asked to describe the drinking habits of their parents and the extent of intra‐family violence witnessed by them as children. The retrospective data were compared to the participant's own present alcohol use and aggressiveness (CTS). Excessive paternal drinking and intra‐family violence were recalled significantly more often by the spouse abusers than by the controls. A latent structure model suggested that the accumulated violence history was less well predicted by either paternal violence or present aggressiveness than by the direct and indirect effects related to drinking. Context‐specific social learning could explain why the parental drunken violence behavior pattern witnessed by the child was repeated by the adult spouse abuser. Aggr. Behav. 23:239–243, 1997. © 1997 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.