Chapter 9

Question 1

Hallmark of batterers

Answer 1

Blame aggression on nearly anyone or anything but themselves

Question 2

Violent, unhappy men judged woment

Answer 2

…more responsibility for negative behaviors, negative intentions, selfish motivations, blame

Question 3

Popular IPV dimensions

Answer 3

Severity dimension, control dimension

Question 4

Most frequent IPV

Answer 4

Situational Couple Violence (SCV). One individual violent, nobody controlling

Question 5

MVC

Answer 5

Mutually violent and controlling/gender symmetric

Question 6

VR

Answer 6

Self defensive IPV: Violent, not controlling

Question 7

IT

Answer 7

Intimate terrorism: Only one partner is violent and controlling.

Question 8

Gender symmetry

Answer 8

NO, not even in mutually violent couples.

Question 9

Interactionist position

Answer 9

Inseparable interdependence between traits and situations

Question 10

Individual trait differences in violent men

Answer 10

Intimacy, impulsivity, problem solving skills

Question 11

Differences between partner-only and generally violent men

Answer 11

Target selection, more behavioral problems in childhood.

Question 12

Most dangerous wife assaulters

Answer 12

Generally violent men with prior arrest records

Question 13

Holtzman-Munroe typology

Answer 13

Family-only, borderline/dysphoric, generally violent, low-level antisocial (later added)

Question 14

FMIPV

Answer 14

Most self-defensive. Violent resisters

Question 15

Women’s anger

Answer 15

Considered unfeminine, possible motive, threats to status as good mothers or faithful partners

Question 16

FMIPV Correlations

Answer 16

Childhood abuse, parental IPV, power-assertive punishment, ASPD, powerlessness, suicide, anxious attachment

Question 17

FMIPV Jealousy

Answer 17

Even more troublesome for women

Question 18

Battered woman syndrome

Answer 18

PTSD subcategory. Learned helplessness->fear->killing.