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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Conflict, Reasoning, and Couple's Marital Violence
    sub title: A Re-examination of the Evidence
  name:
    name part: Sullivan, Jennifer C. .
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Aguirre, Ben
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  type of resource: software, multimedia
  genre: Undergraduate thesis
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1983
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    extent: 1 online resource (50 pages).
  abstract: Murray Straus is the leading researcher in the area of family violence. He conducted a study in 1976 of 2,143 American families. Following the study, Straus and his co-workers wrote the book "Behind Closed Doors" in which they gave the results and important findings from the study. Straus briefly touches on the subject of couples using reasoning to deal with conflict and reduce violence. He concludes that reasoning increases the positive correlation between conflict and violence. I found this to be incorrect. I discovered that Straus had many problems with the way he came upon this particular finding; he interpreted his data improperly and used an invalid and unreliable scale to measure reasoning. The data obtained by Straus reveals that the percentage of couples that were ever violent in any manner increases as the use of reasoning increases. In my analysis, I obtained data on the mean average level of violence. I believe this is accurate. The variables in Straus's reasoning scale are not reliable in that they could possibly be measuring different events depending on how a person interprets them. I reduced the reasoning scale to one easily understandable variable. This variable measures how often a couple tries to discuss their problems calmly with one another. My analysis reveals that the correlation between violence and conflict does not increase as reasoning increases. Also, reasoning actually reduces a couples average level of violence. Therefore, my conclusion is that reasoning out ones' conflicts is a useful tool in diminishing the tendency of family conflicts to cause violence in marriages.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Undergraduate thesis written for Program year: 1982-1983
  note: Digitized from print version held at Pickle Center High Density Storage, HDR barcode A14850693897
  note: University Undergraduate Fellows, sponsored by Sociology Department.
  note: HDR
  subject:
    topic: conflict
  subject:
    topic: conflict management
  subject:
    topic: family violence
  subject:
    topic: marital violence
  subject:
    topic: reasoning
  subject:
    topic: violence
  identifier: https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/CAPSTONE-SullivanJ_1983
  record info:
    record creation date: 231116
    record change date: 20240311193115.6
    record identifier: in00004782085