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Violence Between Therapy-Seeking Veterans and Their Partners

Prevalence and Characteristics of Nonviolent, Mutually Violent, and One-Sided Violent Couples

Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center Baylor College of Medicine, teten{at}bcm.tmc.edu

Michelle D. Sherman

Oklahoma City VA Medical Center South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Xiaotong Han

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center

Among male veterans and their female partners seeking therapy for relationship issues, three violence profiles were identified based on self-reports of physical violence: nonviolent, in which neither partner reported perpetrating physical violence (44%); one-sided violent, in which one partner reported perpetrating violence (30%); and mutually violent, in which both partners reported perpetrating physical violence (26%). Profiles were distinguished based on the veteran's psychiatric diagnosis, woman's age, and both partners' reports of the frequency and severity of violence. Men and women in mutually violent couples reported more verbal and physical aggression than did men or women in any other group. The three groups reported comparable rates of sexual aggression. Appraisals of marital satisfaction and intimacy were not different based on violence profile. No gender differences emerged in the self-reports of frequency and severity of verbal, physical, and sexual aggression.

Key Words: intimate partner violence • PTSD • sexual assault • veteran

This version was published on January 1, 2009

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 24, No. 1, 111-127 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0886260508315782


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