Study finds similar personality types in male and female domestic violence perpetrators

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'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.
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Walsh and colleagues Marc Swogger (University of Rochester), Brian O’Connor(UBC), Yael Schonbrun (Brown University), Tracie Shea (Brown University), and Gregory Stuart (University of Tennessee-Knoxville) 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.”'