INTERNATIONAL DATING VIOLENCE STUDY

 

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PROGRESS REPORT

 

            DATA.  As of this date, the following sites have administered the questionnaire to all or part of their sample:

                                                           

Canada           London, Ontario          Data collected

                        Montreal, Quebec       Data partly collected

                        Winnipeg, Manitoba    Data collected

China               Hong Kong                  Data collected

Mexico             Ciudad Juarez             Data collected

Israel               Haifa                            Data partly collected

Switzerland     Fribourg – French       Data collected

                                         German      Data collected

USA                 New Hampshire          Data collected

                        Texas                          Data collected

 

            PAPERS. Three papers are scheduled for presentation this summer and fall.   They are very simple descriptive papers.  They will present the rates of physical assault and injury, and sexual coercion for the different sites.   Separate rates will be presented for male and female offenders and for minor and severe levels of physical assault, injury, and sexual coercion.

 

Chan, Edward Ko Ling and Murray A. Straus 2002  “Physical And Sexual Assault On Dating Partners By University Students In Hong Kong And The USA“   To be presented at the International Family Violence Conference, San Diego California,  September

 

Ramirez, Ignacio Luis and Murray A. Straus.  2002  “Physical And Sexual Assault On Dating Partners By University Students In Mexico and The USA“  To be presented at the 12th European Conference on Psychology and the Law, Leuven, Belgium, 14-17 September.

 

Straus, Murray A., Douglass A. Brownridge, Edward K. L. Chan, Marie-Helene Gagne, Martine Hebert, Lise Laporte, Ignacio Luis Ramirez, Francien Lamers-Winkelman, and Carrie L. Yodanis.  2002. “The International Dating Violence Study: Preliminary Results On Rates Of Physical And Sexual Assault In Seven Countries”  To be presented at the European Society Of Criminology, Annual meeting, Toledo, Spain,  5-7 September 2002.

 

 

PICTURES AND BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF CONSORTIUM MEMBERS

 

            This new section of the website will be available in a few days.  Click on the link with the above title in my website and you can get to know your colleagues in the consortium, at least vicariously.

 

 

CONFERENCES WHERE WE CAN MEET

           

            There will be a lunch meeting at the International Conference on Family Violence Research, at the Sheraton Hotel, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA,   4-7 August 2002.

 

            I will also be attending the following conferences.  If any of you will be at these conferences, let me know and we can meet:

 

            International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Denver, CO, USA, 7-10 July 2002

            International Society For Research on Aggression, Montreal, Canada, 28-31 July 2002

            European Society Of Criminology, Annual meeting, Toledo, Spain,  5-7 September 2002.

            European Conference on Psychology and the Law, Leuven, Belgium, 14-17 Sep., 2002

 

MINI-CONSORTIUM

 

            Any group of two or more of consortium members can form a mini-consortium for purpose of doing studies comparing their sites, and they would have the exclusive right to use the data for that purpose.   An example would be a consortium of members from French language sites.  When this type of consortium is arranged, it modifies the agreement on rights to the data to limit my use of the data.  Although the agreement gives me permission to use the data from all sites for purpose of cross-national comparisons, when a mini-consortium is formed, that takes priority.   In this example, I would not have permission to compare French language countries and write a paper on the comparisons.  (However, I would have permission to include French language countries in a paper that includes more than just French language countries).

 

LOCALLY SALIENT VARIABLES

 

            The measures I know about so far are:

 

Canada, London, Ontario

            Minimization/Denial (of the violence)

            Empathy/Perspective Taking

            Self Perception as a victim 

Canada, Montreal, Quebec

            Coping  6 items

Perception of child-parent relationship  7 items

Justification of violence  5 items

Participated in a dating violence prevention program  1 item

Told someone about victimization in romantic relationship  1 item

Canada, Winnipeg

            Favorable/unfavorable attitudes toward cross-race/ethnic group  dating and marriage

 

China, Hong Kong

            The respondent’s need to “save-face” and “loosing-face”

India

            Favorable/unfavorable attitudes toward cross-caste relationships

Mexico, Juarez

            Involvement in American pop culture

New Zealand

            Ethnic group relationships

Switzerland

            Linguistic competence scale

USA, El Paso,TX

            Acculturation to Anglo American society

USA, Louisiana

            Perceived deterrent effect of criminal justice sanctions and informal social sanctions for                           intimate partner violence (based on work of Kirk Williams)

USA, Several sites

            Favorable/unfavorable attitudes toward cross-race relationships