ALCOHOL, ANGER AND THE COGNITIONS OF WIFE ASSAULTIVE MEN

酒精、愤怒和侵犯妻子的男人的认知

基本信息

批准号：
6371585
负责人：
CHRISTOPHER I ECKHARDT
金额：
$ 6.51万
依托单位：
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2000
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2000-09-21 至 2003-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6371585
关键词：
aggression alcoholism /alcohol abuse angers behavioral /social science research tag clinical research cognition human subject mood disorders neural information processing spouse abuse violence

项目摘要

APPLICANT'S ABSTRACT: The serious individual, interpersonal, and social consequences of male violence against women signify the importance of marital aggression as a public health concern. Despite significant advancements in the development of theories that explain the phenomenon of marital violence, many unresolved issues remain. In particular, researchers have not fully clarified the role played by problematic alcohol use among wife assaultive men. While ample data suggest that wife assaultive men are more likely to manifest a pattern of maladaptive drinking behavior, little is known about how alcohol intoxication affects discrete instances of marital aggression. Thus, a long-term objective of the proposed research is to further understand the role of acute alcohol intoxication in husband-to-wife violence. In particular, this proposal aims to examine how alcohol affects affective and cognitive processing during marital situations that involve provocation, threat, and high levels of anger. This aim will be investigated by assessing "on-line" cognitive distortions, anger-related affective responses, and aggressive verbalizations during an anger-inducing think-aloud paradigm among samples of violent (n = 60) and nonviolent husbands (n = 60) randomly assigned to receive alcohol (.99g/kg), active placebo (.15g/kg), or no alcohol. An interaction between violence status and alcohol condition is predicted, such that intoxicated violent men are expected to articulate greater levels of global irrational beliefs, cognitive biases, hostile attributions, anger-related affect, and aggressive verbalizations, but lower levels of anger control strategies, relative to nonviolent comparison men. It is also predicted that violent individuals given alcohol will articulate specific cognitive distortions to a greater degree than violent individuals in the active placebo or no-alcohol conditions, as well as nonviolent individuals regardless of alcohol condition. Finally, it is predicted that among intoxicated violent individuals, articulations of irrational beliefs, cognitive biases, hostile attributions, and anger control strategies will discriminate between "mildly" and severely violent men. The ultimate goal of the present proposal is to integrate these findings into emerging comprehensive models of marital violence in order to aid in the treatment of abusive individuals and in the prevention of the harm suffered by their victims.

申请人摘要：严肃的个人、人际和社会男性对女性暴力的后果表明婚姻的重要性攻击行为是一个公共卫生问题。尽管在这方面取得了重大进展解释婚姻暴力现象的理论的发展仍然存在未解决的问题。特别是，研究人员尚未完全阐明酗酒问题在攻击妻子的男性中所扮演的角色。尽管大量数据表明，攻击妻子的男性更有可能表现出适应不良的饮酒行为模式，人们对酒精如何影响知之甚少中毒会影响婚姻中个别的攻击行为。因此，一个拟议研究的长期目标是进一步了解其作用丈夫对妻子的暴力中急性酒精中毒的研究。特别是，这该提案旨在研究酒精如何影响情感和认知在婚姻情况下处理涉及挑衅、威胁和高水平的愤怒。该目标将通过“在线”评估进行调查认知扭曲、与愤怒相关的情感反应和攻击性在引发愤怒的有声思考范式中的言语暴力（n = 60）和非暴力丈夫（n = 60）被随机分配接受酒精 (.99g/kg)、活性安慰剂 (.15g/kg) 或不含酒精。一次互动预测暴力状况和酒精状况之间的关系，这样醉酒的暴力男子预计将表达更高水平的全球非理性信念、认知偏见、敌意归因、与愤怒有关的情感和攻击性言语，但愤怒控制水平较低策略，相对于非暴力比较的人。还有预测称饮酒后的暴力个体会表达出特定的认知与主动安慰剂中的暴力个体相比，扭曲程度更大或无酒精条件，以及非暴力个人，无论酒精状况。最后，预计在醉酒的暴力者中个人、非理性信念的表达、认知偏见、敌意归因和愤怒控制策略将“轻微”区别对待以及严重暴力的人。本提案的最终目标是将这些发现整合到新兴的婚姻综合模型中暴力，以帮助治疗施虐者和防止受害者遭受伤害。