Reflections of Men of Mexican Origin: A Grounded Theory Study of Intimate Partner Violence Risk Factors

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a societal problem with many repercussions for the health care and judicial systems. In the United States, women of color are frequently affected by IPV and experience negative, physical, and mental ramifications. Increasing IPV perpetration and perpetration recurrence rates among men of Mexican origin (MMO) warrants a better understanding of unique risk factors that can only be described by these men. Qualitative studies regarding MMO and distinct IPV risk factors among this populace are few and infrequent. The purpose of this study was to describe IPV risk factors among men of MMO and to describe the process by which these men are able to overcome IPV perpetration risk factors. Fifty-six men of Mexican origin from a low-income housing community in far-west Texas were recruited for participation in audiotaped focus groups. Grounded theory (GT) methodology techniques were utilized to analyze, translate, and transcribe focus group data. Data collection ended when saturation occurred. Participants described risk factors for IPV. Emerging themes included: environment as a context, societal view of MMO, family of origin, normalcy, male and female contributing factors to IPV, and breaking through. Theme abstractions led to the midrange theory of Change Through Inspired Self-Reflection which describes the process of how MMO move from IPV perpetration to nonviolence. The results of the study provide insight on what MMO believe are IPV risk factors. There are implications for clinicians who provide services to MMO, and provide the impetus for future research among this population.

Exposição à violência conjugal na infância e perpetuação transgeracional da violência

“…Já em outros seis estudos foram considerados como participantes de pesquisa apenas mulheres, vítimas ou não de violência conjugal (Alexander, 2009;Eriksson & Mazerolle, 2015;Jaoko, 2010;Kerley et al, 2010;Ludermir et al, 2017;Rivas et al, 2018). Em sete estudos, apenas as respostas dos homens foram consideradas, tratando-se de companheiros agressores (Edwards et al, 2014;Elmquist et al, 2016;Eriksson & Mazerolle, 2015;Mancera et al, 2018;Padovani & Williams, 2011;Teva et al, 2020;Wareham et al, 2009). Por exemplo, o estudo de Elmquist et al (2016) com o intuito de analisar se a hostilidade medeia a perpetuação da violência na família de origem e da violência por parceiro íntimo, teve como participantes 301 homens infratores, presos por violência conjugal.…”

Interrelationships of Economic Stressors, Mental Health Problems, Substance Use, and Intimate Partner Violence among Hispanic Emergency Department Patients: The Role of Language-Based Acculturation

“…Since IPV is most often bidirectional (i.e., men and women report both perpetration and victimization) [27,28,[53][54][55], it is important to measure both behaviors independently. By measuring IPV perpetration and victimization among all study participants, this study helps to overcome a limitation of some previous IPV research among Hispanics, in which factors related to IPV perpetration were confined to male study participants [26,56,57], and factors related to IPV victimization were confined to female study participants [58][59][60][61].…”

Community-Based Participatory Research and Human-Centered Design Principles to Advance Hearing Health Equity

“…Community partners are equal members of the research team and are engaged at all levels of the research process, including a rigorous needs assessment framed within the SEM, study design, recruitment, intervention development and implementation of a randomized controlled trial, and dissemination of results. The intervention is a five-week Community Health Worker-facilitated hearing health education program focused on improving communication for Spanish-speaking older adults with hearing loss in Southern Arizona (Marrone et al 2017). A CBPR approach was undertaken for the codevelopment of the intervention with community partners.…”

“…These trainings were codeveloped by and for Community Health Workers with relevant prior work experience with leading health promotion groups for management of chronic health conditions with older adults (Sánchez et al 2017). The CBPR team then codeveloped and iteratively revised a pilot intervention, Oyendo Bien (Marrone et al 2017). This collaborative process differed from other traditional research methods in which the researcher would revise the materials in a top-down approach.…”