ANGER AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

While there are many factors that play an etiologic and/or contributory role in acts of domestic violence, one of the most important of these is anger (Sue, Sue & Sue, 1994). The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of anger as it relates to

That anger plays a role in domestic violence, perhaps even a stronger role than in other forms of violence, can be seen in a study conducted by Tweed and Dutton (1998). In their research, the authors studied two types of violent men. One group (Type 1) consisted of men who demonstrated suppressed physiological responding during conflicts with their wives, but tended to use violence in nonintimate/non-domestic relationships. The second group tended to manifest violence in the domestic relationship only.

Methods involved the use of a cluster analysis to assess personality disorder in both groups and to relate findings to

each group's attachment style, anger, tra

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e. Shame, Dunnegan states, often leads perpetuators of domestic violence to engage in addictive behaviors such as drugs or alcohol abuse. This, in turn, frees their inhibitions against anger, which may already be low. In another study, Dutton, van Ginkel and Starzomski (1995) connected both same and guilt to anger engendering domestic violence. In this regard, the authors noted that shame-proneness is related to anger arousal and to a tendency to externalize attributions for one's own behavior, both common features of men who assault their wives. In an effort to gain more insight, the authors examined a potential origin of a shame-prone style by analyzing reports of shaming experiences by ones' parents as reported by a population of assaultive males. Significant relationships were found for recollections of shaming actions by parents on adult anger, abusiveness (as reported by the men's wives), and a constellation of personality variables related to abusiveness in prior research. These associations maintained even after corrections were made for response sets such as social desirability. These shaming actions were largely comprised of recollections of parental punishment that were public, random, or global. In research expl
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