title: Courtship violence: incidence in a national sample of higher education students.
abstract: An approximately representative national sample of 2,602 women and 2,105 men was surveyed regarding their frequency of inflicting and sustaining verbal and physical aggression in a heterosexual relationship. Results revealed that approximately 81% of the men inflicted, as well as received, some form of verbal aggression at least once, while the comparable figure for women was 87-88%. The percentage experiencing some form of physical aggression was lower; about 37% of the men and 35% of the women inflicted some form of physical aggression and about 39% of the men and 32% of the women sustained some physical aggression. No differences were found as a function of ethnicity, family income, and institutional characteristics. Regional differences in the use of verbal and physical aggression, and in the receipt of physical aggression, were found for men.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
authors.forename: J W
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Koss
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D003380:Courtship; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D005783:Gender Identity; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D012951:Socialization; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014754:Violence