Power, Control, and Marital Violence; Beliefs vs. Behavior. A Test of the Graham-Kevan Archer Measure

Clifton Emery; Shali Wu; Hotaek Lee; Hyerin Yang; Hai Nguyen Trung; Jaeyop Kim

doi:10.6000/1929-4409.2012.01.22

Authors

Clifton Emery Graduate School of Social Welfare, Yonsei University and Special Term Research Associate in Psychology, Tsinghua University (Beijing), Seoul, Korea
Shali Wu Tsinghua University, SEM, Beijing, China
Hotaek Lee Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Hyerin Yang Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Hai Nguyen Trung Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Jaeyop Kim Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6000/1929-4409.2012.01.22

Keywords:

Marital violence, domestic violence, patriarchal beliefs, controlling behaviors

Abstract

We argue that Western conceptualizations of a common couple violence/intimate terrorism divide in domestic violence categories may be ill-suited to the Korean context because they are rooted in psychopathological explanations of control motivation (Holtzworth-Munroe & Stuart, 1994; Johnson, 2008). Control motivation in Korea may be more related to the cultural necessity of keeping face in a normatively patriarchal context rather than the attachment issues suggested by Holtzworth-Munroe and Stuart (1994). To examine the power and control context of domestic violence in Korea, we implemented Graham-Kevan and Archer's (2003) measure on a sample of 77 Korean students at an elite university in Seoul. We used cluster analysis to separate the sample into high and low control cluster families. The high control cluster was associated with more domestic violence, more violence by the husband, more injuries from violence, and marginally more child abuse. Contrary to our prediction, being in the high control cluster appears to be a more important predictor of domestic violence than patriarchal beliefs. Implications and limitations are discussed.

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