NCJ Number
144845
Journal
Journal of Family Violence Volume: 8 Issue: 2 Dated: (June 1993) Pages: 113-135
Date Published
1993
Length
23 pages
Annotation
This study compared three samples of women in Erie County (N.Y.): a sample of 45 women in treatment for alcoholism, a randomly selected sample of 40 women from the local community, and a sample of 38 women receiving services for victimization by severe violence from their spouses or partners.
Abstract
The participants completed the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS). Results were grouped into those with a low frequency of partner violence (twice per year or less) and a high frequency of violence (once per month or more), and then summed to yield separate low-frequency and high-frequency scores for each CTS subscale. Results revealed that at the high-frequency level, battered women reported the highest scores on each subscale, alcoholic women the second highest, and the community sample of women the lowest level of violence. A multiple regression analysis revealed that being in the alcoholic sample significantly predicted high- frequency negative verbal interaction and moderate violence, controlling for the presence of a partner with alcohol- related problems and demographic differences among the samples. Tables and 35 references (Author abstract modified)