Journal article
Associations of financial stressors and physical intimate partner violence perpetration
Injury Epidemiology, Vol.3(1), p.6
03/01/2016
DOI: 10.1186/s40621-016-0069-4
PMCID: PMC4771826
PMID: 27014562
Abstract
<p><h3>Background</h3> <p>Contextual factors, such as exposure to stressors, may be antecedents to IPV perpetration. These contextual factors may be amenable to modification through intervention and prevention. However, few studies have examined specific contextual factors. To begin to address this gap, we examined the associations between financial stressors and three types of physical IPV perpetration. <h3>Methods</h3> <p>This analysis used data from Wave IV of The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We used logistic regression to examine the associations of financial stressors and each type of IPV (minor, severe, causing injury), and multinomial logit regression to examine the associations of financial stressors and patterns of co-occurring types of IPV perpetration (<em>only</em> minor; <em>only</em> severe; minor and severe; minor, severe, and causing injury; compared with no perpetration). <h3>Results</h3> <p>Fewer men perpetrated threats/minor physical IPV (6.7 %) or severe physical IPV (3.4 %) compared with women (11.4 % and 8.8 %, respectively). However, among physical IPV perpetrators, a higher percentage of men (32.0 %) than women (21.0 %) reported their partner was injured as a result of the IPV. In logistic regression models of each type of IPV perpetration, both the number of stressors experienced and several types of financial stressors were associated with perpetrating each type of IPV. Utilities nonpayment, housing nonpayment, food insecurity, and no phone service were associated with increased odds of perpetrating each form of IPV in adjusted analysis. Eviction was associated with perpetrating severe physical IPV but not threats/minor IPV or IPV causing injury. In multinomial logit regression comparing patterns of IPV perpetration to perpetrating no physical IPV, the relationships of financial stressors were less consistent. Food insecurity was associated with perpetrating only minor physical IPV. Comparatively, overall number of financial stressors and four types of financial stressors (utilities nonpayment, housing nonpayment, food insecurity, and disconnected phone service) were associated with perpetrating all three forms of physical IPV. <h3>Conclusions</h3> <p>Combined with prior research, our results suggested interventions to improve financial well-being may be a novel way to reduce physical IPV perpetration.</p>
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Associations of financial stressors and physical intimate partner violence perpetration
- Creators
- Laura M Schwab-Reese - University of IowaCorinne Peek-Asa - University of IowaEdith Parker - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Injury Epidemiology, Vol.3(1), p.6
- DOI
- 10.1186/s40621-016-0069-4
- PMID
- 27014562
- PMCID
- PMC4771826
- NLM abbreviation
- Inj Epidemiol
- ISSN
- 2197-1714
- Copyright
- © Schwab-Reese et al. 2016
- Grant note
- This analysis received pilot funding from the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center. This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. Special acknowledgment is due Ronald R. Rindfuss and Barbara Entwisle for assistance in the original design. Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). No direct support was received from grant P01-HD31921 for this analysis.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Public Health Administration; Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology; Nursing; Injury Prevention Research Center; Public Policy Center (Archive); Community and Behavioral Health
- Record Identifier
- 9983557321502771
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