Häusliche Gewalt: Studie findet ähnliche Persönlichkeitsmerkmale bei männlichen und weiblichen Tätern

Sobald man das Thema häusliche Gewalt nicht ideologisch, sondern wissenschaftlich angeht, gelangt man auch zu brauchbaren Resultaten. Wo Feministinnen sich noch fragen, warum man die Ursachen häuslicher Gewalt überhaupt erforschen solle, da sie doch für jeden offenkundig seien ("das Patriarchat" und "Frauenhass"), legen Psychologen inzwischen hilfreichere Ansätze vor:

New research published in the August edition of the American Psychological Association’s Journal of Abnormal Psychology, is providing a better picture of the roles played by gender, personality and mental illness in domestic violence.

(...) Walsh and colleagues (...) analyzed data drawn from the MacArthur Violence Risk Assessment Study to examine normal personality, psychopathic characteristics, and mental illness among 567 civil psychiatric patients, including 138 women and 93 men with histories of domestic violence.

“Although both men and women engage in substantial levels of domestic violence, fewer studies have examined female perpetrators,” says Walsh. “These new findings are among the first to highlight similarities between subtypes of domestically violent men and women.”

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