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Male Perpetrators of Intimate Partner Violence: Support for Health Care Interventions Targeted at Level of Risk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2012

Karin V. Rhodes  and
Theodore J. Iwashyna
Karin V. Rhodes*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine and School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, United States of America. kvr@sp2.upenn.edu
Theodore J. Iwashyna
Affiliation:
Department of Pulmonary Critical Care, School of Medicine. University of Michigan, United States of America.
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*Address for correspondence: Karin V. Rhodes, Director, Division of Health Care Policy Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Social Policy and Practice, 3815 Walnut, Rm 201, University of Pennsylvania, 215-421-1036, USA.
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Abstract

The mental health correlates of male aggression or violence against an intimate partner (IPV) are examined using exploratory cluster analysis for 81 men who self-reported risk factors for IPV perpetration on a computer-based health risk assessment. Men disclosing IPV perpetration could be meaningfully subdivided into two different clusters: a high pathology/high violence cluster, and lower pathology/low violence cluster. These groups appear to perpetrate intimate partner violence in differing psychoemotional contexts and could be robustly identified using multiple distinct analytic methods. If men who self-disclose IPV in a health care setting can be meaningfully subdivided based on mental health symptoms and level of violence, it lends support for potential new targeted approaches to preventing partner violence perpetration by both women and men.

Keywords

male intimate partner violence perpetrationrisk assessmenturban mental health
Type
Standard Papers
Information
Behaviour Change , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , 01 September 2009 , pp. 174 - 189
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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