Courtship Violence: Incidence in a national sample of higher education student
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Jacquelyn W. White, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: An approximately representative national sample of 2,602 women and 2,105 men was surveyed regarding their frequency of inflicting and sustaining verbal and physical aggression in a heterosexual relationship. Results revealed that approximately 81% of the men inflicted, as well as received, some form of verbal aggression at least once, while the comparable figure for women was 87-88%. The percentage experiencing some form of physical aggression was lower; about 37% of the men and 35% of the women inflicted some form of physical aggression and about 39% of the men and 32% of the women sustained some physical aggression. No differences were found as a function of ethnicity, family income, and institutional characteristics. Regional differences in the use of verbal and physical aggression, and in the receipt of physical aggression, were found for men.
Courtship Violence: Incidence in a national sample of higher education student
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Violence and Victims, 6, 247-256
- Language: English
- Date: 1991
- Keywords
- Physical aggression, Verbal aggression, Heterosexual relationship