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Journal of Family Violence
Published in: Journal of Family Violence 3/2010

01-04-2010 | Original Article

Exposure to Family Violence in Childhood and Intimate Partner Perpetration or Victimization in Adulthood: Exploring Intergenerational Transmission in Urban Thailand

Authors: Kent R. Kerley, Xiaohe Xu, Bangon Sirisunyaluck, Joseph M. Alley

Published in: Journal of Family Violence | Issue 3/2010

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Abstract

Investigators who study intimate partner violence have long recognized a relationship between exposure to violence in the family of origin and subsequent offending and victimization in the family context. This relationship holds not only for direct exposure (i.e., experiencing violence), but also for indirect exposure (i.e., witnessing violence against a parent or sibling). Typically, this relationship has been attributed to a social learning process that results in the intergenerational transmission of family violence. In this study, we explore intergenerational transmission in a sample of 816 married women in Bangkok, Thailand to determine how childhood exposure to violence in the family of origin is related to intimate partner perpetration and victimization during adulthood. Our results show that there are indeed long-term and significant effects of childhood exposure to family violence on the likelihood of Thai women’s psychological and physical intimate partner perpetration. However, these effects appear to be indirect. Additionally, our results demonstrate a direct association between childhood exposure to parental intimate partner violence and subsequent psychological and physical victimization in adulthood.
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Metadata
Title
Exposure to Family Violence in Childhood and Intimate Partner Perpetration or Victimization in Adulthood: Exploring Intergenerational Transmission in Urban Thailand
Authors
Kent R. Kerley
Xiaohe Xu
Bangon Sirisunyaluck
Joseph M. Alley
Publication date
01-04-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Family Violence / Issue 3/2010
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-009-9295-7

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