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Does the inclusion criterion of women's aggression as opposed to their victimization result in samples that differ on key dimensions of intimate partner violence?

TitleDoes the inclusion criterion of women's aggression as opposed to their victimization result in samples that differ on key dimensions of intimate partner violence?
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2010
AuthorsSullivan, Tami P., Jennifer A. Titus, Laura J. Holt, Suzanne C. Swan, Bonnie S. Fisher, and David L. Snow
JournalViolence against women
Volume16
Issue1
Pagination84-98
Date Published2010 Jan
ISSN1552-8448
KeywordsAdult, African Americans, Aggression, Battered Women, Domestic Violence, Epidemiologic Studies, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Male, Patient Selection, Severity of Illness Index, Sexual Partners, Socioeconomic Factors, Wounds and Injuries
AbstractThis study is among the first attempts to address a frequently articulated, yet unsubstantiated claim that sample inclusion criteria based on women's physical aggression or victimization will yield different distributions of severity and type of partner violence and injury. Independent samples of African American women participated in separate studies based on either inclusion criterion of women's physical aggression or victimization. Between-groups comparisons showed that samples did not differ in physical, sexual, or psychological aggression; physical, sexual, or psychological victimization; inflicted or sustained injury. Therefore, inclusion criterion based on physical aggression or victimization did not yield unique samples of "aggressors" and "victims."
Alternate JournalViolence Against Women

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