Gender symmetry in prevalence, severity, and chronicity of physical aggression against dating partners by university students in Mexico and USA.
Gender symmetry in prevalence, severity, and chronicity of physical aggression against dating partners by university students in Mexico and USA.
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墨西哥和美国大学生对约会对象进行身体攻击的普遍性、严重性和长期性的性别对称性。
DOI：
10.1002/ab.20199
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Ramirez,IgnacioLuis
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Straus,MurrayA;Ramirez,IgnacioLuis
本文报告了对墨西哥华雷斯的四名大学生、德克萨斯州埃尔帕索和卢伯克的墨西哥裔美国人和非墨西哥白人以及新罕布夏州(N=1,544)大学生对约会对象身体攻击的分析结果。报告伴侣暴力的百分比(PV)在所有样本中都很高，但样本之间也存在显著差异。发病率最低的是新罕布夏州(29.7%)，其次是德克萨斯州、非墨西哥白人(30.9%)、德克萨斯州墨西哥裔美国人(34.2%)，最高的是华雷斯(46.1%)。当只比较严重袭击时，样本之间的差异是相似的，即新罕布夏州最低，华雷斯最高。在所有四个样本中，无论是身体攻击的总体流行率还是严重攻击的流行率，男性和女性之间都没有显著差异。在553对一方或双方都有暴力行为的夫妇中，近四分之三的案例(71.2%)存在性别对称性，即双方都有这种行为。当只有一个伴侣暴力时，女性伴侣(19.0%)成为男性伴侣的可能性(9.8%)是女性伴侣的两倍。在205对有严重攻击行为的夫妇中，对称性不那么普遍(56.6%)，但当只有一个伴侣是暴力行为时，女性伴侣的可能性是女性的两倍(只有29.8%是女性，而只有13.7%是男性)。这些结果与许多研究中发现的PV的性别对称性是一致的。他们通过展示性别对称性在四种不同的文化背景中盛行来扩展这些结果。在这些不同的文化背景下，性别对称性的存在，再加上研究表明，女性更经常和更严重地受到伴侣攻击的伤害，以及研究表明，女性发起PV的频率与男性一样高，这表明旨在由妇女初级预防PV的方案和政策对于结束PV和减少男女受害至关重要。阿格尔。行为。33：281-290,2007。©2007 Wiley-Liss Inc.
The paper reports results from analyses of the physical aggression against dating partners by four samples of university students in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Mexican Americans and Non‐Mexican Whites in El Paso and Lubbock Texas, and New Hampshire (N=1,544). The percent reporting partner violence (PV) was high in all samples, but also differed significantly between samples. The lowest rate was in New Hampshire (29.7%), followed by Texas, Non‐Mexican Whites (30.9%), Texas Mexican American (34.2%), and the highest rate was in Juarez (46.1%). When only severe assaults were compared, the differences between samples was similar, i.e., lowest in New Hampshire and highest in Juarez. In all four samples, there was no significant difference between males and females in either the overall prevalence of physical aggression or the prevalence of severe attacks. Among the 553 couples where one or both of the partners were violent, in almost three quarters of the cases (71.2%) there was gender symmetry in the sense that both partners engaged in this type of behavior. When only one partner was violent, this was twice as likely to be the female partner (19.0%) as the male partner (9.8%). Among the 205 couples where there was an act of severe aggression, symmetry was less prevalent (56.6%), but when only one partner was violent, it was again twice as likely to be the female partner (29.8% female only versus 13.7 male partner only). These results are consistent with the gender symmetry in PV found in many studies. They extend those results by showing that gender symmetry prevails in four different cultural contexts. The presence of gender symmetry in these different cultural contexts, combined with studies showing that women are injured more often and more seriously by partner‐assaults, and studies showing that women initiate PV as often as men, suggests that programs and policies aimed at primary prevention of PVby womenare crucial to ending PV and for reducing the victimization of men and women. Aggr. Behav. 33:281–290, 2007. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.