NCJ Number
127720
Journal
Journal of Family Violence Volume: 5 Issue: 4 Dated: (December 1990) Pages: 301-309
Date Published
1990
Length
9 pages
Annotation
The reported study compares the extent of severe physical violence in Utah households with that found in nationwide estimates. The Conflict Tactics Scale was employed to assess whether or not one or more severe physically violent behaviors occurred one or more times in response to conflict during the past year from husband toward wife, from wife toward husband, from father toward a dependent child, and from mother toward dependent child.
Abstract
The severe physically violent behaviors involved in this study were kicking, biting, hitting with a fist, hitting or trying to hit with an object, beating up, and using or threatening to use a knife or gun. Rates of severe spousal physical violence in Utah households were slightly higher than those in the 1985 national survey. Parent-to-child severe physical violence rates were slightly less in Utah that in the United States as a whole. Income, employment status, education, family size, religiosity, marital power structure, and gender role orientation failed to differentiate spousal violence rates. Severe mother-to-child violence was influenced substantially by educational level, family size, employment status, and gender role orientation. High level of education for traditionally oriented mothers were the father is not involved in the childrearing was associated with severe physical violence toward their children. 5 references and 4 tables (Publisher abstract modified)