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The main objectives of this study were: (1) to examine select personal demographic factors related to family stress and resources and their collective ability to predict type and severity of abusive behavior; and (2) to examine variables reflective of family stress and resources, community-level factors related to joblessness, income and social isolation and measures of type and severity of abusive behavior and their collective ability to predict treatment attendance, attrition and completion. Should variables reflective of family stress and resources have a significant relationship with measures of violent, controlling behavior and assertive communication, evaluation of intervention strategies in addressing such factors would be warranted. The inclusion of family and community-level variables in addition to select individual variables in an analysis of treatment compliance seeks to identify factors contributing to high rates of treatment attrition. Both objectives offer insight to the challenges faced in developing and executing programming at the agency level. This large-sample (n=541) study of men entering mandated treatment gathered pretreatment scores on the Propensity for Abusiveness Scale (PAS), Control Scale (CS), and Spouse-Specific Assertiveness Scale (SSAS), as well as family and community-level data for analysis. Linear regression analysis indicated that family stress and resources had no relationship to measures of abusive, controlling behavior or assertive communication. A focus on building coping mechanisms and strategies to manage and overcome stress and enhance resources is not supported as a supplement to the current mandated treatment model. The overall linear and logistic regression analyses predicted 13 and 19% of the variability in the dependent variables attendance and attrition/completion respectively. Pretreatment measures of abusive and controlling behavior and select individual demographic variables were consistently significant predictors. No community-level variables were significant predictors. Such findings leave a great deal of variability in attendance and attrition/completion unaccounted for, yet form a base of analysis to build upon in large sample research into offender treatment compliance
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Identifying predictors of behavior and treatment attrition in domestic violence offender treatment
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