Abstract
Abstract Intending to contribute to the marital violence theme, this article has the objective to investigate the presence of physical violence suffered and committed by men in family relationships and the predictive power of family of origin experiences on this occurrence in a sample of 186 men. A sociodemographic questionnaire, Family Background Questionnaire (FBQ) and Revised Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS2) were used to collect the data. Physical violence suffered and committed by men established significant correlations with experiences of violence in the family of origin. The predictive factor for the occurrence was the experience of parental physical abuse in childhood. We discuss the relevance of a focus of attention on men also as victims of marital violence and the relevance of understanding the role of family of origin for the maintenance of violence in future relations.
Highlights
Intending to contribute to the marital violence theme, this article has the objective to investigate the presence of physical violence suffered and committed by men in family relationships and the predictive power of family of origin experiences on this occurrence in a sample of 186 men
Comparing the means obtained according to the frequency of severe physical violence (t = 2,345, p = 0.02), we verified that there were significant differences indicating that men reported being victims (m = 3.43; sd = 0.87) significantly more often than perpetrators of severe physical violence (m = 2.86; sd = 0.66)
The results indicate the presence of physical violence in intimate relationships of part of the sample, both for committing and for suffering physical assaults
Summary
Intending to contribute to the marital violence theme, this article has the objective to investigate the presence of physical violence suffered and committed by men in family relationships and the predictive power of family of origin experiences on this occurrence in a sample of 186 men. Most scientific studies on the theme apply the notion of gender as a way of understanding violence between partners, identifying the roles of male perpetrator and female victim, the existence of traditional conceptions of social roles, and the need to reproduce the traditional family structure (Cortez & Souza, 2008; Jong, Sadala, & Tanaka, 2008; Pazo & Aguiar, 2012). Such studies, despite intending to fight for gender equality, by considering women as victims and understanding their acts of violence only as reactive to violence inflicted by their partner
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