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Father Absence and Male Aggression. A Re‐Examination of the Comparative Evidence
Author(s) -
Ember Carol R.,
Ember Melvin
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
ethos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.783
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1548-1352
pISSN - 0091-2131
DOI - 10.1525/eth.2001.29.3.296
Subject(s) - whiting , aggression , psychology , punishment (psychology) , identity (music) , homicide , social psychology , corporal punishment , developmental psychology , criminology , poison control , injury prevention , medicine , fish <actinopterygii> , medical emergency , physics , fishery , acoustics , biology
Beatrice B. Whiting suggested that sex‐identity conflict leads to male violence cross‐culturally. While subsequent worldwide cross‐cultural research has been equivocal regarding the "sex‐identity conflict" hypothesis, we suggest that this may be because researchers have failed to pay attention to Whiting's contingent conditions—how powerful men are compared to women, and the degree to which aggression is considered a component of the male adult role. Using multiple regression, we examine how homicide and assualt rates also may be affected by the degree to which aggression is explicitly encouraged, the extent of corporal punishment, and whether the father or the mother is the main publisher