Subtypes of partner violence perpetrators among male and female psychiatric patients.
The goal of this naturalistic study was to examine heterogeneity among female and male civil psychiatric patients with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Participants were 567 patients drawn from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study (J. Monahan et al., 2001). The authors examined subtype composition among 138 women and 93 men with positive histories of IPV and compared these groups with 111 women and 225 men with no histories of IPV. Findings for men and women were consistent with reports from studies of male perpetrators in forensic and community settings in that generally violent/antisocial, borderline/dysphoric, and family only/low-psychopathology subtypes of perpetrators were identified in both men and women. This study provides preliminary evidence for the generalizability of typologies derived from nonpsychiatric partner violence perpetrators to psychiatric populations and suggests that typologies derived from studies of male IPV perpetrators may provide useful guidance for the investigation of female IPV perpetration.
Walsh
Zach
Z
Department of Psychology.
Swogger
Marc T
MT
Department of Psychiatry.
O'Connor
Brian P
BP
Department of Psychology.
Chatav Schonbrun
Yael
Y
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.
Shea
M Tracie
MT
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior.
Stuart
Gregory L
GL
Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000145:classification / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011599:Psychopathology; D012737:Sex Factors; D055815:Young Adult