Cognitive and interpersonal factors in woman abuse

Jeffrey L. Edleson, Zvi C. Eisikovits, Edna Guttmann, Michal Sela-Amit

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Abstract

As part of a larger ecological analysis of woman battering in Israel, this study examined the combined ability of selected cognitive and interpersonal measures to differentiate among couples in which women were battered and those in which they were not. The ability of these variables to predict men's physical violence and verbal abuse and women's verbal abuse was also executed. Results indicate that a combination of low marital adjustment, high levels of conflict over children, and more perceived self-control over one's life characterized violent men; low marital adjustment and high conflict over child rearing characterized battered women. Both men's and women's verbal abuse was moderately predicted by lower marital adjustment while men's physical violence was predicted by increased levels of conflicts with his partner over child rearing. These findings suggest the importance of marital relationship factors in domestic violence and highlight the need for further study of the interaction between perceived control and marital relationship problems in relationships where men physically abuse women.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)167-182
Number of pages16
JournalJournal of Family Violence
Volume6
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1991

Keywords

  • cognitions
  • interpersonal factors
  • woman abuse

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Law

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