Binge Drinking in Couples and Intimate Partner Violence

描述(申请人提供)：尽管频繁的酗酒模式与男性亲密伴侣暴力(IPV)的发生有关，但这些女性饮酒模式在亲密伴侣暴力中的作用尚不清楚。此外，很少有数据说明男性和女性饮酒对两个成员的知识产权犯罪和受害的共同影响。这项建议涉及一项三波纵向研究，旨在检查夫妻酗酒作为言语和身体上的婚姻攻击的预期预测因素。该项目强调了执行认知功能和负面影响对酗酒和IPV之间的关系的缓和影响。在方法上，这项申请包括向社区家庭样本邮寄问卷，招募结婚或同居至少一年且年龄在18岁至45岁之间的夫妇。这对夫妇将接受夫妻饮酒行为的筛查。约300个丈夫、妻子、双方或两者都不符合酗酒标准的家庭将被招募进行为期两年的纵向研究。这对夫妇将在基线以及一年和两年后进行评估。评估将集中在执行认知功能、负面情绪、言语和身体攻击以及与酒精相关的变量上。此外，还将就夫妻关系中最严重的言语和身体攻击事件接受采访，以便进行基于事件的分析。统计分析将考察夫妻酗酒之间的关系，以及他们对夫妻婚姻攻击性的相互作用，以及ECF或负面影响是否会调节这些关系。这一结果将对女性饮酒在IPV发生中的作用提供重要的见解，无论是单独饮酒还是与男性饮酒结合。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although frequent heavy drinking patterns are related to the occurrence of intimate partner violence (IPV) among men, the role of these women's drinking patterns in IPV is poorly understood. Moreover, there is little data that addresses the joint influence of men's and women's drinking on both members' IPV perpetration and victimization. This proposal involves a three wave longitudinal study designed to examine husband and wife binge drinking as prospective predictors of verbal and physical marital aggression. The project emphasizes the moderating influence of executive cognitive functioning and negative affect on the relationship between binge drinking and IPV. Methodologically, this application involves mailed questionnaires to a community sample of households to recruit couples who are married or have been living together for at least one year and are between the ages of 18 and 45. The couples will be screened with respect to husband and wife drinking behavior. Approximately 300 families in which the husband, the wife, both, or neither meet criteria for binge drinking will be recruited for a two year longitudinal study. The couple will be assessed at baseline and one and two years later. The assessments will focus on executive cognitive functioning, negative affect, verbal and physical aggression, and alcohol-related variables. In addition, couples will be interviewed with respect to the most severe verbal and most severe physical aggression events in the relationship in order to conduct event-based analyses. Statistical analyses will examine the relationships among husband and wife binge drinking, and their interaction on husband and wife marital aggression and whether ECF or negative affect moderate these relationships. The results will provide important insights with respect to the role of women's drinking, alone and in combination with men's drinking, on the occurrence of IPV.