Alcohol, Relationship Conflict, and Intimate Partner Violence

酒精、关系冲突和亲密伴侣暴力

• 批准号: 7463937
• 负责人: MARIA L TESTA
• 金额: $ 39.07万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-07-05 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7463937
• 关键词: Acute; Address; Aggressive behavior; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol consumption; Alcohols; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Clinical; Communities; Conflict (Psychology); Couples; Daily; Depth; Development; Distress; Event; Expectancy; Female; General Population; Heavy Drinking; Individual; Individual Differences; Interview; Laboratories; Men' s Role; Methods; Outcome; Pattern; Physical aggression; Play; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Resolution; Risk Factors; Role; Sampling; Self-control as a personality trait; Severities; Surveys; Violence; Week; Woman; Women' s Role; alcohol effect; analog; base; communication behavior; day; design; diaries; drinking; experience; insight; intimate partner violence; male; man; men; partner aggression; psychologic; research study; violent relationship

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although alcohol consumption has long been recognized as a risk factor in intimate partner violence, few studies have addressed whether acute alcohol consumption is a causal factor in episodes of relationship conflict or aggression. The proposed research will address the proximal relationship between alcohol consumption and relationship aggression among a community sample of young married and cohabiting couples. Two methods are proposed. First, an experimental study will examine the effects of alcohol, administered independently to male and female partners, on communication behaviors and verbal aggression within a conflict resolution paradigm. We hypothesize that alcohol consumption by either partner will increase behavioral negativity and verbal aggression. Second, a daily diary study will allow us to examine whether the likelihood of relationship conflict or aggression occurring on a given day is increased when either the man, the woman, or both have consumed alcohol earlier that day. In-depth, event-based interviews, conducted at the conclusion of the 8-week diary period, will provide insight into how alcohol may contribute to the initiation, escalation, and desistance of conflict. There are several unique aspects to the research. First, although the majority of research has focused on the role of men's drinking in their perpetration of aggression, women's drinking may contribute to relationship conflict and aggression as well. Thus, we will explicitly consider the role of women's drinking, independent of the drinking of their male partners, on relationship conflict and aggression both within the laboratory and in naturally-occurring conflict episodes. Second, the diary study promises to be the first to examine daily relationship between alcohol and episodes of relationship conflict in a non-clinical sample and is expected to address the relative importance of alcohol in naturally occurring relationship conflict. Third, recognizing that alcohol may not facilitate conflict or aggression for all couples, both studies will consider the role of potential moderating variables, including propensity toward aggression, behavioral self-control, and alcohol expectancies. Considering the proximal relationship between alcohol consumption and relationship conflict is expected to provide important insight into the causal mechanisms underlying the alcohol-intimate partner violence relationship.

描述（由申请人提供）：虽然饮酒长期以来一直被认为是亲密伴侣暴力的一个风险因素，但很少有研究探讨急性饮酒是否是关系冲突或侵略事件的因果因素。拟议的研究将解决酒精消费和关系侵略之间的近端关系的社区样本的年轻已婚和同居夫妇。提出了两种方法。首先，一项实验研究将探讨酒精的影响，独立管理的男性和女性的合作伙伴，沟通行为和言语攻击的冲突解决范式。我们假设，任何一方饮酒都会增加行为消极和言语攻击。第二，每日日记研究将使我们能够检查当男人、女人或两者在当天早些时候饮酒时，在某一天发生关系冲突或攻击的可能性是否增加。在为期8周的日记期结束时进行的深入，基于事件的访谈将深入了解酒精如何导致冲突的开始，升级和停止。这项研究有几个独特的方面。首先，尽管大多数研究都集中在男性饮酒在其侵略行为中的作用，但女性饮酒也可能导致关系冲突和侵略。因此，我们将明确考虑的作用，妇女的饮酒，独立于他们的男性伴侣的饮酒，在实验室内和自然发生的冲突事件的关系冲突和侵略。其次，日记研究有望成为第一个研究酒精和非临床样本中关系冲突事件之间的日常关系，并有望解决酒精在自然发生的关系冲突中的相对重要性。第三，认识到酒精可能不会促进所有夫妇的冲突或侵略，两项研究都将考虑潜在的调节变量的作用，包括侵略倾向，行为自我控制和酒精预期。考虑到饮酒与关系冲突之间的密切关系，预计将为了解酒精与亲密伴侣暴力关系的因果机制提供重要见解。