Gender and Aggression in Marital Relationships: A Life-Span Perspective

Bookwala, Jamila; Sobin, Joelle; Zdaniuk, Bożena

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“…The results showed that duration of marriage was not correlated to marital adjustment. Finding of the study disagrees with the earlier finding of comparable research that indicated that duration of marriage is positively associated with marital satisfaction (e.g., Bali et al, 2010;Bookwala et al, 2005;Brown & Lin, 2012;Darvizeh & Kahaki, 2008). …”

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Marital Adjustment and Duration of Marriage among Postgraduate Iranian Students in Malaysia

Ghoroghi¹,

Hassan²,

Baba³

2015

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The current study aimed to examine the relationship between marriage duration and marital adjustment of married Iranian students at postgraduate level in Malaysian universities. To this end, 220 randomly selected married participants completed an online questionnaire via email. The respondents were questioned about their demographic information and completed Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (LWMAT; Locke & Wallace, 1959). Data analysis provided information about mean scores, frequencies, percentages, and Pearson's correlation. The results disclosed that there was no correlation between length of marriage and marital adjustment and marital adjustment remained fairly stable over time. This study also discusses the popularity of studying in Malaysia among Iranian students at postgraduate levels.

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“…Some research shows that the length of marriage is positively associated with marital satisfaction (Bookwala, Sobin, & Zdaniuk, 2005;Hatch & Bulcroft, 2004;Kulik, 2004). Research has shown that marital satisfaction is lower in long-term marriages than in those of short duration (Jansen et al, 2006).…”

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Marital Adjustment and Duration of Marriage among Postgraduate Iranian Students in Malaysia

Ghoroghi¹,

Hassan²,

Baba³

2015

IES

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“…Specific to domestic relationships, however, researchers have found that men and women use aggression with similar frequency (e.g., Bookwala, Sobin, & Zdaniuk, 2005). However, Bookwala et al reported that the injuries inflicted by violence differed for men and women, with men inflicting more severe injuries and being more likely to kill their partner (see also Hamby, 2005).…”

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Hands-on Killing of Intimate Partners as a Function of Sex and Relationship Status/State

Mize

Shackelford

2009

J Fam Viol

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Guided by evolutionary psychology and a situational perspective on violence, we generated three hypotheses to investigate whether the percentage of intimate partner homicides by beating, a hands-on homicide method, varies with the victim-offender relationship. We tested these hypotheses with a national database that includes incident-level information on over 50,000 intimate partner homicides. The results indicate that (1) men are more likely than women to kill a partner by beating, and (2) men are more likely to kill their partners by beating when the relationship is dating or non-marital cohabiting (versus legal marriage). We argue that the lack of commitment in these non-marital relationships may produce greater jealousy in men, driving the perpetrator to kill his victim in a more violent manner (i.e., beating), relative to men who kill their wives.

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“…Using cross-sectional data from the National Family Violence Surveys, Suitor, Pillemer, & Straus (1990) found that couple physical aggression does decrease with age from adolescence to late adulthood and concluded that this reduction is not merely an artifact of generation or cohort differences. In the National Survey of Families and Households, Bookwala, Sobin, and Zdaniuk (2005) found that male and female physical aggression was lower with each increasing age group (20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49)(50)(51)(52)(53)(54)(55)(56)(57)(58)(59), and 60+ year olds), but males and females had similar rates of aggression within each of the three age groups.…”

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Trajectories of Physical and Emotional Marital Aggression in Midlife Couples

Vickerman¹,

Margolin²

2008

Violence Vict

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This study uses three-level generalized Hierarchical Linear Modeling to examine trajectories of husbands' and wives' physical and emotional aggression over three assessments and the effects of years since marriage. In this community sample of 118 couples, physical aggression significantly decreased over time (43% per year). Emotional aggression did not significantly change over time, but trajectories significantly differed for husbands (3% increase) versus wives (10% decrease). Longer duration marriages had lower physical aggression and, for wives only, lower emotional aggression. Aggression trajectories showed considerable variability: 44-55% of physically aggressive spouses desisted from one assessment to the next; 5-12% reported start-ups in physical aggression. Discussion addresses the role of gender and type of aggression in aggression trajectories. Keywordsintimate partner violence; psychological aggression; spousal abuse; growth curve analysis; longitudinal change Data on the prevalence, incidence, and seriousness of intimate partner violence call attention to the importance of understanding trajectories of partner violence. Estimates indicate 25% of women and 8% of men are physically assaulted or raped by an intimate partner at some time during their life (Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000). Other samples reveal that as many as 21% of couples report intimate physical aggression each year (McDonald, Jouriles, Ramisetty-Mikler, Caetano, & Green, 2006). Research has shown that intimate relationship aggression has deleterious mental and physical health consequences for women (Bonomi et al, 2006;Coker, et al., 2002;Loxton, Schofield, & Hussain, 2006), as well as some negative health consequences for men (Coker, et al., 2002;Simonelli & Ingram, 1998;Taft et al, 2006). Assessments of intimate physical aggression based on lifetime incidence or 12-month prevalence data fail to capture the variability in partner aggression across time, particularly for couples in long-term relationships. The present study examines husbands' and wives' use of relationship aggression over three time points, providing information about the stability and trajectory of aggression, while calling attention to the potential fallibility of defining a couple as aggressive based on one time point. The study also examines the impact of years since marriage on aggression trajectories, thereby accounting for stage in relationship development on aggression.Although female victims are often the focus of intimate violence research, the considerable rates of aggression towards men (e.g. Archer, 2000) suggest the need to evaluate both male and female aggression. Clearly women suffer more severe consequences due to partner Address correspondence to: Katrina Vickerman, Department of Psychology, SGM 930, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, 90089-1061 or email: E-mail: vickerma@usc.edu. (Archer, 2000;Holtzworth-Munroe, Smutzler, & Bates, 1997) and the context of and motivations for female perpetrated aggression may be different (Swan & Snow, ...

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Gender and Aggression in Marital Relationships: A Life-Span Perspective

Cited by 50 publications

References 19 publications

Marital Adjustment and Duration of Marriage among Postgraduate Iranian Students in Malaysia

Marital Adjustment and Duration of Marriage among Postgraduate Iranian Students in Malaysia

Hands-on Killing of Intimate Partners as a Function of Sex and Relationship Status/State

Trajectories of Physical and Emotional Marital Aggression in Midlife Couples

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