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)