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Demographic Asymmetries and Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediating Influence of Power Dynamics, Control Attempts, and Verbal Conflict

Cooper, Lindsey M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435265870

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2015, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology.
The present study examined whether demographic asymmetries among young adult men and women were associated with intimate partner violence. Scholars have examined the association between relationship dynamics, particularly asymmetries, and intimate partner violence; yet this work largely neglected the reciprocity of relationship violence and focused primarily on samples of married and cohabiting adults. Further, little is known about the influence of asymmetries on partner violence during young adulthood, a period of the life course during which individuals are at a greater risk for intimate partner violence. Finally, little is known about the mechanisms through which these associations operate. Using data from the fifth interview of the Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study (TARS) (n=819), the present study examined the influence of demographic asymmetries in education, employment, income, race, and age on young adults’ self-reported frequency of intimate partner violence. Additionally, this research examined whether lower power, control attempts, and verbal conflict mediated the associations between demographic asymmetries and partner violence. Using ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, net of control variables, I found that demographic asymmetries in employment and race were associated with intimate partner violence. Moreover, control attempts and verbal conflict mediated the associations between demographic asymmetries in employment and race and partner violence whereas lower power did not.
Monica Longmore, Dr. (Advisor)
Peggy Giordano, Dr. (Committee Member)
Wendy Manning, Dr. (Committee Member)
59 p.
Sociology
Intimate partner violence, Young Adult Romantic Relationships, Toledo Adolescent Relationships Study

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  • Cooper, L. M. (2015). Demographic Asymmetries and Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediating Influence of Power Dynamics, Control Attempts, and Verbal Conflict [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435265870

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cooper, Lindsey. Demographic Asymmetries and Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediating Influence of Power Dynamics, Control Attempts, and Verbal Conflict. 2015. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435265870.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cooper, Lindsey. "Demographic Asymmetries and Intimate Partner Violence: The Mediating Influence of Power Dynamics, Control Attempts, and Verbal Conflict." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1435265870

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