TY  - SER
AU  - Ehrensaft, Miriam K.
AU  - Moffitt,Terrie E.
AU  - Caspi,Avshalom
TI  - Clinically abusive relationships in an unselected birth cohort: men's and women's participation and developmental antecedents
SN  - 0021-843X
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - American Psychological Association
KW  - FVC
KW  - ABUSED MEN
KW  - ADOLESCENTS
KW  - DEMOGRAPHICS
KW  - DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
KW  - Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study
KW  - GENDER
KW  - HEALTH
KW  - MENTAL HEALTH
KW  - PARENTING
KW  - PHYSICAL ABUSE
KW  - SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE
KW  - YOUNG PEOPLE
N1  - Journal of Abnormal Psychology 113(2) 2004 : 258-271
N2  -   This journal article reports the findings of a study using a longitudinal research design with an unselected birth cohort (n = 980, 24-26 years) to test three hypotheses: Can intimate partner violence with "clinical" consequences, or "real" abuse, be detected in community samples; is this abuse gender mutual; and is it "psychopathological". Participants were members of the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study. The study tracked a representative birth cohort of 1,037 young people (52% male, 48% female) at the following assessment points: 3 years (n = 1,037), 5 years (n = 991), 7 years (n = 954), 9 years (n = 955), 11 years (n = 925), 13 years (n = 850), 15 years (n = 976), 18 years (n = 930, and 26 years (n = 980). Five types of candidate risk were selected on which to compare groups who were in clinically abusive (n = 75), non-clinically abusive (n = 134), and non-abusive relationships (n = 746): family of origin characteristics, parenting, child behavioural problems, adolescent psychiatric disorders, and adolescent personality traits. The authors' findings are that, in non-clinically abusive relationships, perpetrators were primarily women. In clinically abusive relationships, men and women used physical abuse, although more women needed medical treatment for injury. Women in clinically abusive relationships had childhood family adversity, adolescent conduct problems, and aggressive personality; men had disinhibitory psychopathology since childhood and extensive personality deviance. The authors argue that these findings counter the assumption that if clinical abuse was ascertained in epidemiological samples, it would be primarily man-to-woman, explained by patriarchy rather than psychopathology.--ADAPTED FROM THE JOURNAL ABSTRACT
ER  -