Race, Age, Gender, Income, and the Experience of Adult Intimate Partner Violence

• Main Author: Hairston, Jacquelynn Melnita
• Format: Others
• Language: en
• Published: ScholarWorks 2017
• Subjects: age; gender; household income; intimate partner violence; NCVS; race; Public Health Education and Promotion
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3775; https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4878&context=dissertations

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant public health problem that affects approximately 2.4 million individuals in the United States each year. Race, age, gender, and household income are established correlates of criminal victimization and diverge across various victimization experiences for these individuals. The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between IPV victimization and the demographic variables of race, age, gender, and household income using race, class, and gender theory as a framework. Logistic regression analyses on data from 3,492 adult male and 3,637 adult female IPV victims obtained from the 2013 National Crime Victimization Survey showed that race was not significantly associated with IPV, while age, gender, and household income were significantly associated. Respondents 65 years or older reported less victimization and men were 2.09 times at lower odds to experience IPV than women. Respondents in the household income category of less than $7,500 were 1.62 times at higher odds to experience IPV than were those in the $75,000 or greater income category. Positive social change could result from an increased awareness of circumstances related to IPV victimization so public health practitioners can work to reduce its incidence impacting individuals, families, and communities.