Batterer Psychological Profile--Preventing Partner Abuse

描述（改编自申请人摘要）：主要目的是利用Holtzworth-Munroe & Stuart所描述的心理特征，在基于人群的伴侣暴力（PV）犯罪横断面研究中识别施暴者类型。将采用三种亚型：GVA， BD和RO已被描述。所有参与者都将被问及他们的暴力行为，受害者，以及他们的心理状况。这些数据将用于评估施暴者亚型，并按施暴者亚型分为(a)当前的PV肇事者，以及(b)具有施暴者心理特征但未报告物理PV的人（标记为高风险非施暴者）。后一组的识别将为殴打者类型学的新应用提供机会，这可能对预防研究具有重要意义。研究人员将在这一高风险非犯罪者群体中探索PV的保护因素（例如，无药物滥用，高度整合或强烈的父母依恋）。

DESCRIPTION (adapted from applicant's abstract): The primary objective is to use psychological profiles described by Holtzworth-Munroe & Stuart to identify batterer typologies in a population-based, cross-sectional study of partner violence (PV) perpetration. Three subtypes will be employed: GVA, BD and RO have been described. All participants will be asked about their violence perpetration, and victimization, and their psychological profile. These data will be used to assess batterer subtypes and grouped as (a) current PV perpetrators by batterer subtype, and (b) those with the psychological profile of a batterer yet do not report physical PV (labeled high-risk non-perpetrators). Identification of this latter group will provide an opportunity for a novel application of batterer typologies that may have important implications for prevention research. The investigators will explore protective factors (e.g., no substance abuse, high integration, or strong parental attachment) for PV among this high-risk non-perpetrator group. Aims include estimation of the prevalence of, and risk factors for, both PV perpetration by batterer subtypes and high-risk, non-perpetration among 2000 students sampled from a large community college system in Houston, Texas. Measures of distal and proximal risk factors based on a theoretical model will be used to guide assessment of correlates of both perpetrator and high-risk, non-perpetrators by psychological batterer subtypes over 3 levels of influence (individual, family, and ethnic community). It is anticipated having sufficient numbers of subjects from at least 3 ethnic communities: Mexican-American, African-American, and Caucasian. Point estimates and confidence intervals for PV typologies and perpetration will be estimated by gender. Multinomial logistic regression will be used to assess risk factors (e.g. childhood abuse and witnessing IPV, substance abuse, affect) for the 3 PV typologies by level of influence. To determine whether the novel, high-risk, non-perpetrator group is at increased risk of using force against a partner (AIM 3), a short-term (8-month) cohort study will be conducted to prospectively estimate PV risk among those not reporting perpetration in the cross-sectional interview by psychological profile. All respondents scoring as high-risk, having the psychological profile consistent with a battering subtype yet not perpetrating PV will be included. A similar number of low-risk (no batterer psychological profile and non-perpetrators) will be included as unexposed. Cox proportional hazards modeling will be used to estimate time to first use of physical force by psychological profile.