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Journal of Family Violence
Published in: Journal of Family Violence 8/2010

01-11-2010 | Original Article

The Relationship Between Religious and Spiritual Factors and the Perpetration of Intimate Personal Violence

Authors: Robbin G. Todhunter, John Deaton

Published in: Journal of Family Violence | Issue 8/2010

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Abstract

Despite some understanding of general correlates and possible antecedents to intimate partner violence (IPV) within the Christian community, the impact of religious and spiritual factors tends to be confounded by other factors and is often misjudged. Archival data from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were used to examine the impact of nine religious and spiritual factors on the probability of IPV perpetration by males, aged 18 to 26, who nominally classified themselves as Catholic, Protestant, or Christian. Logistic regression results indicated that IPV perpetration could not be adequately predicted from the religious and spiritual factors. Given the geographic breadth and the size of the Add Health sample, no finding of a predictive model for Christian male-perpetrated IPV challenges the paradigm that religious and spiritual factors should be overtly addressed in faith-based batterers’ programs targeting young adult males.
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Metadata
Title
The Relationship Between Religious and Spiritual Factors and the Perpetration of Intimate Personal Violence
Authors
Robbin G. Todhunter
John Deaton
Publication date
01-11-2010
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Family Violence / Issue 8/2010
Print ISSN: 0885-7482
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2851
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-010-9332-6

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