title: Spouse abuse: social learning, attribution and interventions.
abstract: Forty male respondents, 20 batterers and 20 non-batterers comparably matched for education, sex, age, employment, and occupation in a non-probabilistic sample, were administered the Conflict Tactics Scale and the Causal Dimension Scale in order to measure exposure to violence in both family and non-family environments and to determine how respondents attributed the cause of spousal conflict. The results demonstrate that batterers were exposed to violence in non-family environments, particularly with their friends, and did not differ with respect to exposure to violence and suggestions are made with respect to points of intervention.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010379:Peer Group; D010414:Pennsylvania; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012931:Social Environment; D012949:Social Work, Psychiatric; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000209:etiology*; D014754:Violence