Recently added articles from Violence and Victims:
Longitudinal Examination of Physical and Relational Aggression as Precursors to Later Problem Behaviors in Adolescents
Jan 01, 2009; ... Research has addressed the consequences of being a victim of physical and relational aggression but less so the consequences of being an aggressor during adolescence. Consequently, relatively little is known about the extent to which aggression in early adolescence increases the risk of later ...
Is Psychological Aggression as Detrimental as Physical Aggression? The Independent Effects of Psychological Aggression on Depression and Anxiety Symptoms
Jan 01, 2009; ... The differential effects of psychological and physical victimization on depression and anxiety symptoms were examined via APIM and growth curve modeling techniques in a sample of newlyweds (N = 103 couples) assessed four times over the first 3 years of marriage. On average, husbands and wives ...
Defining Appropriate Stages of Change for Intimate Partner Violence Survivors
Jan 01, 2009; ... Recent research suggests that the transtheoretical model of behavior change is a promising approach for interventions addressing women's experiences of intimate partner violence. This study explores the distribution of abused women across the stages of change for (a) staying safe from intimate ...
Relationships Between Mobbing at Work and MMPI-2 Personality Profile, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation and Behavior
Jan 01, 2009; ... This study investigates the relationships between the experience of mobbing at work and personality traits and symptom patterns as assessed by means of the revised version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2). Participants were 107 workers who had contacted mental health ...
Exploring the Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Abuse: Gender Differences in the Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation
Jan 01, 2009; ... Despite evidence that childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk for intimate partner abuse perpetration, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. Given literature suggesting that violent behaviors may serve an emotion regulating function, this study examined the ...
Intimate Partner Violence Among Hispanic Men and Women: The Role of Drinking, Neighborhood Disorder, and Acculturation-Related Factors
Jan 01, 2009; ... Using secondary data analysis, this study assessed the contribution of drinking, neighborhood disorder, and acculturation-related factors to past-year intimate partner violence (IPV) risk among a national sample of married or cohabiting Hispanic men (n = 1,148) and women (n = 1,399) who ...
Sexual Assault in Men: A Population-Based Study of Virginia
Jan 01, 2009; ... Male sexual assault is a serious public health issue that is mostly underreported and unrecognized. A population-based study was conducted on 705 adult men in Virginia. The study found a lifetime prevalence of 12.9% among men, with 94% assaulted for the first time before the age of 18 ....
Intimate Partner Violence and Community Service Needs Among Pregnant and Postpartum Latina Women
Jan 01, 2009; ... Health care providers are advised to refer abused women to needed community services. However, little is known about abused women's perceived need for services, particularly among Latina women. We examined the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) and perceived needs for legal, ...
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Gender-Based Violence Committed by Male College Students in Awassa, Ethiopia
Jan 01, 2009; ... We sought to determine the prevalence and risk factors for the perpetration of gender-based violence among 1,378 male undergraduate students in Awassa, Ethiopia. A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect information. Nearly a quarter (24.4%; 95% confidence interval [CI] 22.1-26.7) of ...
Polyvictimization by Dating Partners and Mental Health Among U.S. College Students
Nov 01, 2008; ... Studies on mental health effects of partner violence often ignore multiple victimizations or polyvictimization. The current study had several objectives: (a) examine the rate of physical, psychological, and sexual victimization and combinations of them (polyvictimization) among a sample of ...
Police Officer Perceptions of Intimate Partner Violence: An Analysis of Observational Data
Nov 01, 2008; ... This article explores police officer perceptions of intimate partner violence (IPV) using observational data from police ride-alongs. We performed a qualitative analysis of narrative data from the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN) to examine officers' views of IPV as well as whether ...
Crime Victims' Perceptions of Restitution: The Importance of Payment and Understanding
Nov 01, 2008; ... The Office for Victims of Crime recommends that victims should be informed, consulted, respected, and made whole, rights that relate to informational, procedural, interpersonal, and distributive justice. We surveyed 238 victims in two Pennsylvania counties to test whether crime victims' ...
Self-Reports of Violent Victimization Among U.S. Adults
Nov 01, 2008; ... This article describes the prevalence of violent victimization and injuries among U.S. adults and examines how these estimates differ by individual- and household-level characteristics using the second nationally representative Injury Control and Risk Survey (ICARIS-2). The ICARIS-2 was ...
Depression as a Mediator Between Family Factors and Peer-Bullying Victimization in Latino Adolescents
Nov 01, 2008; ... The purpose of this study was to assess the mediating role of depression in three different relationships: (a) sibling bullying and peer victimization, (b) mothers' power-assertive parenting and peer victimization, and (c) fathers' power-assertive parenting and peer victimization. Results from ...
Homicide Victimization in California: An Asian and Non-Asian Comparison
Nov 01, 2008; ... Previous literature has not specified the contextual differences that adequately explain Asian Americans' underinvolvement in homicide. This study examines the social contexts within which homicide takes place. Homicide data from 1991 to 1999 in California are analyzed, and the results show ...
The "Homogamy" of Road Rage Revisited
Nov 01, 2008; ... The principle of homogamy, the tendency for victims and offenders to share behavioral and demographic characteristics, has been applied to various forms of violent crime. This article explores how this principle relates to types of "road rage" using a survey of 1,208 Australian drivers ....
Hostile Attributional Bias, Early Abuse, and Social Desirability in Reporting Hostile Attributions Among Chinese Immigrant Batterers and Nonviolent Men
Nov 01, 2008; ... This study examined differences in reporting hostile attributional bias (HAB) between court-referred Chinese immigrant batterers and a nonviolent community sample. It measured social desirability (SD) in their reporting of HAB by including an SD measure and a covert indirect measure of HAB ....
Prevalence and Risk Factors of Gender-Based Violence Among Female College Students in Awassa, Ethiopia
Nov 01, 2008; ... We determined the prevalence and risk factors of gender-based violence among 1,330 female college students in Awassa, Ethiopia. Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire that collected information on experience with gender-based violence during three time periods (lifetime, since ...
Does the Transtheoretical Model Predict Attrition in Domestic Violence Treatment Programs?
Jul 01, 2008; ... Attrition in intervention programs for domestically violent men is considered to be a serious and enduring problem. Researchers have found a number of sociodemographic variables that partially explain this phenomenon; however, models based on these variables have a limited predictive power ....
Understanding and Facilitating the Change Process in Perpetrators and Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: Summary and Commentary
Jul 01, 2008; ... One of the main contributions of the transtheoretical model of behavior change (TTM; Prochaska & DiClemente, 1984) has been to sharpen our conceptual focus on motivation and readiness to change. The idea that individuals (and larger systems as well) proceed through an orderly set of stages ...