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Item Domestic conflict and coping strategies among Korean immigrant women in the United States(2003) Lee, Eunju; Pomeroy, Elizabeth Cheney, 1955-This study explores the prevalence of domestic violence (i.e., physical assault, psychological aggression, negotiation skills, and injury) occurring among Korean immigrant women and related predictors of domestic violence. This study also investigated the relationships between domestic violence and coping strategies (i.e., problem-focused coping, emotion-focused coping, and avoidance oriented coping) utilized by Korean immigrant women. In addition, this study probed the predicting factors that affect on the types of coping strategies utilized. One hundred and thirty six Korean immigrant women, who came to the U.S. after age sixteen and married or have been married, participated in this study. Data were collected using questionnaires translated in Korean to measure domestic violence and coping strategies and related predictors: life stress, violence experienced as a child, alcohol use by a male partner, and cultural characteristics of Korean immigrant women. Multiple regression analysis was used as the main statistical technique to test the research questions in this study. This study indicated that religious involvement, alcohol use by a male partner, and physical assault experienced in childhood had significant relationships with domestic violence (i.e., physical assault, psychological aggression, and injury). Only the emotion-focused coping strategy was positively related to domestic violence (i.e., physical assault, psychological aggression, and injury). It was found that age, English proficiency, length of residence, immigration stress, alcohol consumption, and at-risk drinking had significant relationships with coping strategies (i.e., emotion focused coping). This study suggests the importance of social work service toward domestic violence and the coping strategies among Korean immigrant women. Implications for social work practice policy, and future research were discussed.Item Factors influencing interdisciplinary team member agreement with social worker assessments of domestic violence incidents in the United States Air Force(2002-08) Slack, Michael Byron, 1957-; Rubin, AllenThis study tested four hypotheses related to the propensity of interdisciplinary team members to agree with clinical social workers in their assessment of alleged spousal abuse incidents. Domestic violence intervention in the United States Air Force (USAF) involves social work evaluation of all suspected cases of spousal maltreatment. Following these assessments, a team of professionals (social work, law enforcement, legal, clergy, health care, family specialists, and military command representatives) entitled the Family Maltreatment Case Management Team (FMCMT) is convened to hear the specifics of the social work evaluation. Decisions are then made regarding whether the incident meets the criteria for abusive behavior (case substantiation); and if so, what services will be provided for the family members (case management). Literature review in the areas of family violence, military social work, group dynamics, group decision-making processes, and interdisciplinary team approaches revealed no prior studies having been conducted on the USAF FMCMT process. One hundred sixty-seven FMCMT members from twenty-two USAF installations completed survey materials to test whether factors such as provision of the social work recommendation, professional affiliation, disciplinary orientation, or task-related experience were predictive of agreement with social worker case assessments. The use of a hierarchical multiple regression analysis method for three of the independent variables (providing versus withholding the social work recommendation, offender-control versus victim-services membership type, and task-related experience level) found only the provision of the social work assessment to be statistically significant (p = .000). However, the modest effect size found suggests the social work influence over team member decision-making did not appear excessive. Standard multiple regression and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the fourth independent variable consisting of the professional disciplines that comprise the FMCMT. None of the individual professions were found to differ significantly related to agreement with the social work case assessment. Demographic variables such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, and military status were controlled for in an attempt to clarify the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. Implications for policy and practice are discussed, and suggestions for future research are given.