Abstract:Based on information 11,408 university students provided on perpetration of physical assault in a romantic relationship, they were classified into three Dyadic Concordance Types (DCTs). We then examined six risk factors drawn from previous literature of partner violence: physical abuse as a child, antisocial personality characteristics, alcohol abuse, coercive control, chronic denigration in a relationship, and patriarchy at the societal level. We hypothesized that some risk factors for assault are different d… Show more
“…Figures 1 and 2 are examples of the results when couples are classified according to concordance and discordance in respect to assault. Similar results have been obtained for DCTs of other types of partner abuse such as psychological aggression (Straus & Michel-Smith, 2014b) and sexual coercion (Straus & Michel-Smith, 2015).…”
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“…Figures 1 and 2 are examples of the results when couples are classified according to concordance and discordance in respect to assault. Similar results have been obtained for DCTs of other types of partner abuse such as psychological aggression (Straus & Michel-Smith, 2014b) and sexual coercion (Straus & Michel-Smith, 2015).…”
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