Ethnicity, Alcohol, and Spousal Violence

这项申请提议进行后续的全国调查，第一波调查已于1995年进行。总的来说，调查旨在通过全国代表性的后续样本，审查种族、社会经济地位、酒精使用和暴力之间的相互关系。有描述性的、理论性的和方法学上的具体目标。该调查的描述性具体目的是：(1)估计美国非裔美国人、西班牙裔和白人夫妇亲密伴侣暴力的患病率、发生率和稳定性；(2)估计亲密伴侣暴力与各种酒精措施之间的关系。研究的理论具体目标是：(1)检验低社会经济地位调节亲密伴侣暴力与酒精使用之间关系的假设；(2)评估西班牙裔美国人的文化适应与亲密伴侣暴力之间的关系；(3)检验一个纵向结构模型，该模型由每个伴侣的学习历史、态度、个性、酒精消费和酒精相关暴力的个体水平变量组成。(4)用夫妻功能和精神病理学指标检验亲密伴侣暴力和酒精消费模式的纵向和横断面相互关系。调查的方法学目的是：(1)评估配偶之间关于亲密伴侣暴力和与酒精有关的亲密伴侣暴力发生的一致性；(2)评估亲密伴侣暴力的潜在差异，作为从一个受访者收集数据与从夫妻双方收集数据的函数。

This application proposes a follow-up national survey, the first wave having been conducted in 1995. In general, the investigation seeks to examine the interrelationships between ethnicity, socioeconomic status, alcohol use, and violence, employing a national representative follow-up sample to do so. There are descriptive, theoretical, and methodological specific aims stated for the application. The descriptive specific aims of the investigation are: (1) estimate the prevalence, incidence, and stability of intimate partner violence for African-American, Hispanic, and White couples in the U.S., and (2) estimate the association between intimate partner violence and a wide variety of alcohol measures. The theoretically-specific aims of the investigation are: (1) test the hypothesis that low socioeconomic status moderates the relation-ship between intimate partner violence and alcohol use, (2) Assess the association between acculturation and intimate partner violence among Hispanics, (3) test a longitudinal structural model composed of individual-level variables for each partner interrelating learning history, attitudes, personality, alcohol consumption, and alcohol- related violence within the dyad, and (4) Examine the longitudinal and cross-sectional interrelationships of intimate partner violence and alcohol consumption patterns with indices of couple functioning and psychopathology. The methodological aims of the investigation are: (1) Assess concordance between spouses about the occurrence of intimate partner violence and alcohol-related intimate partner violence, (2) Assess potential differences in intimate partner violence as a function of collecting data from one respondent vs. collecting data from both couple members.