Several theories have been developed to provide a conceptual understanding of intimate
partner violence (IPV) episodes. Although each of these theories has found some degree of …

The main purpose of this review article was to collect and summarize all available papers
that reported empirical data related to men's and women's motivations for IPV. To facilitate …

Objective: The tendency for people to present a favourable image of themselves on
questionnaires is called socially desirable responding (SDR). SDR confounds research …

A growing body of empirical research has demonstrated that intimate partner violence is not
a unitary phenomenon and that types of domestic violence can be differentiated with respect …

Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of
intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to …

Since classical times, philosophers and physicians have identified anger as a human frailty
that can lead to violence and human suffering, but with the development of a modern …

Objectives The two objectives were:(1) to identify, appraise and synthesise research that is
relevant to selected UK National Screening Committee (NSC) criteria for a screening …

BACKGROUND: More than half a million US women and more than 100,000 men are
treated for injuries from intimate partner violence (IPV) annually, making IPV perpetration a …

Research indicates that economic dependency in women and emotional dependency in
men independently contribute to domestic-partner abuse risk and that high levels of …

The existence of domestic violence is closely linked to several ideological factors that
include sexism and other beliefs about society in general, namely the belief in a just world …