Exam 12: Power and Violence in Families

Recent immigrants from Eastern Europe and Asia tend to have fairly ______ gender roles and conjugal power relations.

Sibling violence is typically personality driven, not situational.

Recent research suggests that spouses think of their marital relationship as fair when they

Cohabitants and those who have been previously divorced are especially likely to maintain separate

__________ power stems from the more dominant individual's ability to claim authority, or the right to request compliance.

The __________ hypothesis involves the assertion that the relative power between husbands and wives results from their relative resources as individuals.

Estimates are that __________ percent of women experience marital rape.

Structural solutions to combat child maltreatment would involve more energetic national measures to raise living standards.

There are several alternatives to power politics. Which of the following is NOT one of these?

Intimate partner violence (IPV)has _______ over the past several decades.

Victor and Tanya have a fairly "traditional" marriage. Tanya regards Victor as possessing superior judgment in terms of most decisions and always defers to his opinions. This illustrates which source of power?

Daniel and Trinidad are married. Daniel makes most of the decisions, Trinidad does most of the housework, and both feel free to raise complaints to each other about their relationship. These observations reflect the different components of

Researchers agree that the resource hypothesis fully explains marital power.

__________ power is based on the persuasive content of what the dominant person tells another individual.

The text reports that police officers typically avoid making arrests that would be automatic if the man and woman involved were not married.

Family researcher Steven Nock views the future as one of __________ couples.

Research on couples' __________-whether they pool their money and who controls pooled or separate money-is relatively recent.

As an aspect of marital power, the division of labor is the only standard by which women and men judge the equality or lack of equality in their marriage.

The belief that IPV is asymmetrical

__________ refers to the ability to exercise one's will.