The Gender Asymmetric Effect of Intimate Partner Violence on Relationship Satisfaction
Our research examined the association between intimate partner violence and relationship satisfaction among victims. The negative association between victimization and relationship satisfaction was substantially stronger for females than for males. Comparisons between respondents reporting
about same-sex relationships with those reporting about opposite-sex relationships provided evidence that the amplified victimization/satisfaction association among female victims is a victim-gender effect rather than an actor-gender effect. In other words, our findings suggest that aggression
harms the quality of the intimate partnerships of females much more so than the partnerships of males regardless of whether a male or a female is the perpetrator. We supplemented dialogue about the direct implications of our findings with discussions about how these results may raise conceptual
questions about the adequacy of the instruments scholars use to study partner aggression.
Keywords: CTS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; MARITAL VIOLENCE; MEASUREMENT; PARTNER VIOLENCE
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 December 2011
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