Female Aggression Toward Male Intimate Partners: An Examination of Social Norms in a Community-Based Sample

@article{Sorenson2005FemaleAT,
  title={Female Aggression Toward Male Intimate Partners: An Examination of Social Norms in a Community-Based Sample},
  author={Susan B. Sorenson and Catherine A. Taylor},
  journal={Psychology of Women Quarterly},
  year={2005},
  volume={29},
  pages={78 - 96}
}
We investigated the effect of assailant gender on injunctive social norms (i.e., beliefs about what ought to happen) regarding violence toward an intimate heterosexual partner. In a random-digit-dialed survey conducted in four languages, 3,769 community-residing adults were presented with five vignettes in which we experimentally manipulated characteristics of the assailant, victim, and incident. We examined the vignette variables and measured respondent characteristics using multivariate… 
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