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What would your neighbor do? An experimental approach to the study of informal social control of intimate partner violence in South Korea
Author(s) -
Emery Clifton R.,
Yang Hyerin,
Kim Oksoo,
Arenas Carmen,
Astray Andres
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.585
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1520-6629
pISSN - 0090-4392
DOI - 10.1002/jcop.21882
Subject(s) - domestic violence , vignette , informal social control , psychology , intervention (counseling) , population , poison control , sample (material) , clinical psychology , suicide prevention , social psychology , social control , developmental psychology , demography , medicine , psychiatry , environmental health , sociology , social science , chemistry , chromatography
Although research on bystander intervention and informal social control of intimate partner violence (IPV) is increasingly common, empirical anomalies remain and experimental studies on population samples are rare. This study reports the effects of a new experimental approach to the study of informal social control of IPV by neighbors on a small population sample of 100 married men in Seoul, South Korea. We hypothesized that men randomly assigned to a high‐perceived informal social control condition would have lower self‐estimated likelihoods of IPV perpetration in response to a vignette. We also hypothesized that the effect of random assignment would be different for that portion of the sample that reported perpetration of family violence (IPV or child abuse). Compared to the nonperpetrating portion of the sample, perpetrators of family violence in the sample randomly assigned to the high perceived control condition experienced a significant drop in self‐estimated likelihood of IPV perpetration.