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Intimate Partner Violence within the Chinese Community in San Francisco: Problem Gambling as a Risk Factor

Author: Michael S. Liao

Published in: Journal of Family Violence | Issue 8/2008

Abstract

A total of 31 Chinese community members (8 males and 23 females) were recruited from three social service agencies in San Francisco (Donaldina Cameron House, Richmond Area Multi-Services, and St. Mary’s Chinese Center) to participate in a study examining the relationship between problem gambling and intimate partner violence (IPV). A survey approach was taken which assessed the participants’ demographic characteristics including age, gender, country of birth, and employment, as well as factors relating to their intimate partners, including partner’s alcohol abuse and problem gambling. Younger participants and those whose partners were problem gamblers were more likely to experience IPV. However, partner’s problem gambling was a significant predictor only at the ten-point cutoff on the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) (Lesieur and Blume, American Journal of Psychiatry, 1987) and not at the five-point cutoff. Chinese participants whose partners were problem gamblers (SOGS ≥ 10) were 27.5 times more likely to experience IPV. Findings are discussed and social work practice, policy, and research implications are highlighted.

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Title: Intimate Partner Violence within the Chinese Community in San Francisco: Problem Gambling as a Risk Factor
Author: Michael S. Liao
Publication date: 01-11-2008
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Family Violence / Issue 8/2008
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-008-9190-7

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