Title

Pregnancy, Stress And Wife Assault: Ethnic Differences In Prevalence, Severity, And Onset In A National Sample

Abstract

Research using primarily hospital-based samples has suggested that pregnancy may put women at increased risk for wife assault, however, this research is largely limited by the lack of a comparison group of women who are not pregnant, and the failure to consider racial or ethnic differences in risk for violent victimization. The present study uses data from the 1992 National Alcohol and Family Violence Survey, a national probability sample of 1,970 individuals, to examine the prevalence, severity, and onset of wife assaults associated with pregnancy among Anglo and Hispanic families. The results indicated that pregnancy was associated with minor assaults among Hispanic women and severe assaults among Anglo women. Multivariate analyses revealed that among both Anglo and Hispanic families, there was no direct effect of pregnancy on risk for violent victimization after controlling for socioeconomic status, stressful life events, and age.

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Publication Title

Violence and Victims

Volume

16

Issue

3

Number of Pages

219-232

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1891/0886-6708.16.3.219

Socpus ID

0034968475 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0034968475

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