The Distribution of and Factors Associated With Intimate Terrorism and Situational Couple Violence Among a Population-Based Sample of Urban Women in the United States

Abstract

It has been proposed that two distinct forms of intimate partner violence exist: intimate terrorism and situational couple violence. This article describes the distribution of factors that characterize intimate terrorism and situational couple violence, including controlling behaviors, violence escalation, and injury, among a representative sample of 331 physically assaulted women living in 11 North American cities. In addition, respondent, partner, and relationship characteristics associated with each form of violence are identified. Most women who experienced physical assault also experienced controlling behavior by their male partner. In multivariate analyses, respondent's young age, violence escalation in the relationship, partner's access to guns, previous arrests for domestic violence offenses, poor mental health, and previous suicide attempts or threats were associated with intimate terrorism, defined as experiencing one or more controlling behaviors. These results suggest that situational couple violence is rare and that moderate and high levels of controlling behaviors are associated primarily with partner factors.

Psychological Aggression, Physical Aggression, and Injury in Nonpartner Relationships Among Men and Women in Treatment for Substance-Use Disorders

“…The rates of perpetration were higher than what has been observed in some IPV studies from SUD treatment samples (41%-54%; e.g., Chermack et al, 2001;Fals-Stewart et al, 2002), in a prior study of an SUD treatment sample examining NPV (53%; Chermack et al, 2000), in community-based samples (28% -35%) (Ehrensaft et al, 2003;O'Leary and Williams, 2006), and in the CTS-II normative college sample (49% males, 35% females; Straus et al, 1996). Moreover, rates of injury in our study were approximately four times higher than the 13% reported by college students in the CTS-II (Straus et al, 1996) and higher than the 33% found in a sample of women reporting IPV within a 2-year time frame (Frye et al, 2006). In addition to high rates of aggression toward nonpartners, our sample also reported high rates of being the recipient of aggression and being injured by nonpartners: 78% psychological aggression, 56% physical aggression, and 46% injury.…”

A literature review of intimate partner violence and its classifications

“…For instance, Johnson in his secondary analysis of the data, defined high control by the presence of three or more control items (Johnson, 2008).Such as approach has been criticized as it considers each control item of an equal weight. It may be that presence of any control item should be identified as control not just three or more items (Frye et al, 2006). It may also be worth exploring if it is the control that should be the focus of research as various forms of IPV are usually an attempt to exert control and to get the victim to confirm (Anderson, 2008).…”

“…The findings revealed that men and women in the community sample were more likely to use SCV (86% of the cases), when men and women were compared in the clinical samples. Johnson's typology has been supported by some researchers (Ansara & Hindin, 2009, 2011Beck et al, 2013;Frye, Manganello, (Meier, 2015). Further research to test Johnson's typology is recommended (Beck et al, 2013;Gulliver & Fanslow, 2015;Hines & Douglas, 2010).…”

Employment Status and Intimate Partner Violence Among Mexican Women

“…PT victims are more likely to use shelters and/or hospitals and tend to be underrepresented in large random surveys (Anderson, 2008;Leone, Johnson, & Cohan, 2007). In addition, victims of PT are more likely to suffer from depression, severe injuries, miss work, and experience posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; Anderson, 2008;Frye, Manganello, Campbell, Walton-Moss, & Wilt, 2006;GrahamKevan & Archer, 2003;Johnson, 1995Johnson, , 2006Kelly & Johnson, 2008). Johnson (1995) identified CCV as resulting from a conflict that gets out of hand and leads to minor forms of violence.…”