Emotional Abuse and Controlling Behaviors in Heterosexual Relationships: The Role of Employment and Alcohol Use for Women and Their Partners

Zavala, Egbert; Spohn, Ryan E.

doi:10.1080/02732173.2010.496103

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“…Due to data limitations, it was not possible to include other measures of target antagonism in the current study. For example, jealously and employment status incompatibility have been found to increase a person’s risk for victimization (Kar & O’Leary, 2013; Zavala & Spohn, 2010). These concepts are theoretically aligned with target congruence theory.…”

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When the Cop Is the Victim: A Test of Target Congruence Theory on Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Experienced by Police Officers

Zavala

2017

J Interpers Violence

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This study analyzed data from the Police Stress and Domestic Violence in Police Families in Baltimore, Maryland, 1997-1999 ( N = 753) to examine propositions derived from target congruence theory in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization experienced by police officers. Specifically, this study tested the influence of target vulnerability, target gratifiability, and target antagonism on IPV victimization. Results from logistic regression models showed that all three theoretical constructs positively and significantly predicted IPV victimization. Results, as well as the study's limitations and directions for future research, are discussed.

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When the Cop Is the Victim: A Test of Target Congruence Theory on Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Experienced by Police Officers

Zavala

2017

J Interpers Violence

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“…Our best models showed little association between drought and emotional, physical, and sexual violence on any continent, yet we found associations between drought and increases in controlling behaviors in LAC and Asia. The effect of drought on controlling behaviors is supported by literature that finds that controlling behaviors are associated with precarious economic situations and unemployment [83]. However, given that controlling behaviors are a risk factor for other forms of violence in other countries [84,85], it is surprising that drought can increase the risk of controlling behaviors without also affecting the risk of other forms of violence.…”

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Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence

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Droughts are associated with several societal ills, especially in developing economies that rely on rainfed agriculture. Recently, researchers have begun to examine the effect of droughts on the risk of Intimate-Partner Violence (IPV), but so far this work has led to inconclusive results. For example, two large recent studies analyzed comparable data from multiple sub-Saharan African countries and drew opposite conclusions. We attempt to resolve this apparent paradox by replicating previous analyses with the largest data set yet assembled to study drought and IPV. Integrating the methods of previous studies and taking particular care to control for spatial autocorrelation, we find little association between drought and most forms of IPV, although we do find evidence of associations between drought and women’s partners exhibiting controlling behaviors. Moreover, we do not find significant heterogeneous effects based on wealth, employment, household drinking water sources, or urban-rural locality.

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“…For example, Vieraitis and Williams (2002), in an analysis of 158 U.S. cities, noted that the relative status of women (ratio of women to men) in areas of full-time employment and executive and managerial positions was related to elevated female homicide victimization rates (see also Della Giustina, 2010). Within a spousal relationship, Zavala and Spohn (2010) likewise reported that a wife who is the sole breadwinner is more likely to experience emotional abuse by her male partner than one whose husband is also employed. The unemployed male partner is likely to believe that his masculinity is challenged by his employed female partner as he fails to meet the traditional male gender role of breadwinner.…”

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Cross-National Examination of the Relationship Between Gender Equality and Female Homicide and Rape Victimization

Chon

Clifford

2020

Violence Against Women

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This study is the first cross-national work to examine the impact of gender equality on both female homicide and rape victimization. The data set from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) was analyzed for 70 countries. Several gender equality measures were significantly and positively related to rape victimization, but were mostly not significant to female homicide. Findings for rape victimization were consistent with the backlash hypothesis, but such findings may be related to the limitations of police rape rates, such as different legal definitions and police-reporting behaviors across countries.

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Emotional Abuse and Controlling Behaviors in Heterosexual Relationships: The Role of Employment and Alcohol Use for Women and Their Partners

Cited by 14 publications

References 55 publications

When the Cop Is the Victim: A Test of Target Congruence Theory on Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Experienced by Police Officers

When the Cop Is the Victim: A Test of Target Congruence Theory on Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Experienced by Police Officers

Re-examining the effects of drought on intimate-partner violence

Cross-National Examination of the Relationship Between Gender Equality and Female Homicide and Rape Victimization

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