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Personality Types are Similar in Male and Female Domestic Violence Perpetrators
The new study provides a better picture of the roles played by gender, personality and mental illness in domestic violence.
"Intimate partner violence is a major public health concern. Examining subtypes of perpetrators is an important way of learning more about why people are violent in close relationships. Understanding why different people are violent may be crucial for developing new ways to reduce violence in relationships," said the study's lead author Zach Walsh, assistant professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia's (UBC) Okanagan campus.
The researchers analyzed data drawn from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study to examine normal personality, psychopathic characteristics, and mental illness among 567 civil psychiatric patients, including 138 women and 93 men with histories of domestic violence.
"Although both men and women engage in substantial levels of domestic violence, fewer studies have examined female perpetrators. These new findings are among the first to highlight similarities between subtypes of domestically violent men and women," said Walsh.
Prior studies of domestically violent men have found that perpetrators can be categorized into three groups.
The study provides preliminary evidence that the following three subtypes also exist among female perpetrators-antisocial perpetrators are often violent outside the relationship and have high levels of psychopathic personality traits.
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