Gender Comparisons in the Relationship Between Parental and Sibling Violence and Nonfamily Violence

• NCJ Number: 125724
• Journal: Journal of Family Violence Volume: 5 Issue: 3 Dated: (September 1990) Pages: 225-235
• Author(s): W D Mangold Jr; P R Koski
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 11 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper addresses two neglected areas in the research on the relationship between family violence and violence outside the home: violence other than parent-child abuse and the effect of gender.

Abstract

Specifically, we consider both parental and sibling violence as independent variables, nonfamily violence as the dependent variable, and gender as the specification variable. The data were collected from a sample of 306 students in Introductory Sociology and Social Problems classes. The finding of particular importance is that the interaction between the gender of both the aggressor and the victim has a significant effect on the relationship between violence within the home and nonfamily violence. 6 tables and 14 references. (Publisher abstract)