Linking Community Protective Factors To Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration
Abstract
This study explores how community factors moderate men’s individual risk for physical and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. The sample of 604 male first-semester undergraduate students supports a connection between county-level protective and risk factors, an individual risk factor, and IPV perpetration. For each unit increase in the proportion of women in powerful positions within a county, there was a 71% decrease in the risk that control-seeking respondents would perpetrate physical IPV, controlling for other factors including population density and violent crime. This article presents a multilevel analysis using hierarchical generalized linear modeling and discusses practice and research implications.
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M. Pippin Whitaker is an assistant professor in the College of Social Work, University of South Carolina. She holds an MSW and PhD in social work from Florida State University. Her research focuses on community- and societal-level protective factors to prevent intimate partner violence and child maltreatment, frameworks to promote positive parenting, and prevention of human trafficking.
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