title: Linking community protective factors to intimate partner violence perpetration.
abstract: This study explores how community factors moderate men's individual risk for physical and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. The sample of 604 male first-semester undergraduate students supports a connection between county-level protective and risk factors, an individual risk factor, and IPV perpetration. For each unit increase in the proportion of women in powerful positions within a county, there was a 71% decrease in the risk that control-seeking respondents would perpetrate physical IPV, controlling for other factors including population density and violent crime. This article presents a multilevel analysis using hierarchical generalized linear modeling and discusses practice and research implications.
authors.affiliation: University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA Pippin.whitaker@sc.edu.
authors.forename: M Pippin
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Whitaker
mesh_terms: D019058:Community Networks / Q000592:standards*; D000066479:Criminal Behavior; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006801:Humans; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D065840:Protective Factors; D012307:Risk Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: contextual factors; intimate partner violence; protective factors