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. 1996 Oct;9(4):721-43.
doi: 10.1007/BF02104099.

Factors in the cycle of violence: gender rigidity and emotional constriction

D Lisak  1 , J Hopper, P Song
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Factors in the cycle of violence: gender rigidity and emotional constriction

D Lisak et al. J Trauma Stress. 1996 Oct.

Abstract

A sample of 595 men were administered self-report assessments of childhood sexual and physical abuse, perpetration history, gender rigidity and emotional constriction. Including noncontact forms of sexual abuse, 11% of the men reported sexual abuse alone, 17% reported physical abuse alone, and 17% reported both sexual and physical abuse. Of the 257 men in the sample who reported some form of childhood abuse, 38% reported some form of perpetration themselves, either sexual or physical; of the 126 perpetrators, 70% reported having been abused in childhood. Thus, most perpetrators were abused, but most abused men did not perpetrate. Both sexually and physically abused men who perpetrated manifested significantly more gender rigidity and emotional constriction than abused nonperpetrators. Men who reported abuse but not perpetration demonstrated significantly less gender rigidity, less homophobia and less emotional constriction than nonabused men.

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