Poster Session 5: Violence, Abuse, and Discrimination

Presenters: Jingshuai Du, Sandra Stith, Jared Durtschi, Chelsea Spencer

Summary
In China, most intimate partner violence (IPV) research focuses on male perpetration and female victimization, whereas studies on dating violence and female IPV perpetration are less common.. In the current research, we sought to examine how relationship factors, including anger management, communication problems, relationship conflict, and relationship distress are linked with female physical and psychological IPV perpetration. We included 857 female college students in three regions in China from the International Dating Violence database. Our findings suggest that it may be important to explore the role of college women's anger management skills, communication problems and conflict resolution skills in their dating relationships, as well as to develop female-based intervention programs to increase Chinese college women's relationship skills to reduce their levels of IPV perpetration.

Objectives
-- To update traditional view on gender violence in China
-- To demonstrate how relational factors are associated with female perpetration in intimate partner violence in China.
-- To illustrate the cultural background on female IPV perpetration in China.

Subject Codes: intimate partner violence (IPV), relationships, dating
Population Codes: marriage and family therapists/clinicians, Asian/Pacific Islander, dating
Method and Approach Codes: path analysis, regression: linear (simple, multiple, hierarchical), quantitative methodology