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Intimate Partner Violence in Young Adult Dating, Cohabitating, and Married Drinking Partnerships
Author(s) -
Wiersma Jacquelyn D.,
Cleveland H. Harrington,
Herrera Veronica,
Fischer Judith L.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00705.x
Subject(s) - domestic violence , dating violence , general partnership , psychology , cluster (spacecraft) , demography , suicide prevention , young adult , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , occupational safety and health , poison control , heavy drinking , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , environmental health , sociology , political science , pathology , computer science , law , programming language
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examined intimate partner violence (IPV) and drinking partnerships in 741 young adults in male‐female dating, cohabitating, and married relationships. Cluster analyses revealed four similar kinds of drinking partnerships: (a) congruent light and infrequent, (b) discrepant male heavy and frequent, (c) discrepant female heavy and infrequent, and (d) congruent moderate/heavy‐frequent drinkers. Overall, there were no significant main effect differences across relationship type and clusters. The type of relationship and the type of drinking partnership interacted with contexts examined (i.e., type of violence severity, gender, and whether the violence was perpetration or victimization). Given the severity of IPV in couple relationships, additional empirical attention to drinking partnerships is warranted.