There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.
Abstract
The link between alcohol use/abuse and partner violence attracted increasing research
attention in the past decade. Some studies reported a null or weak association between
alcohol use and intimate partner violence, whereas other studies reported a moderate
or large association. Using a meta-analytic approach, the link between alcohol use/abuse
and male-to-female partner violence as well as female-to-male partner violence was
examined herein. The results indicate that there is a small to moderate effect size
for the association between alcohol use/abuse and male-to-female partner violence
and a small effect size for the association between alcohol use/abuse and female-to-male
partner violence. For men only, several moderators were also examined and the magnitude
of the effect sizes varied significantly as a function of the type of sample and type
of alcohol measure selected. Specifically, there was a larger association of alcohol
and aggression in clinical versus non-clinical samples and when measures assessed
more severe alcohol problems.