IN THE NEWS -- STUDY FINDS
WORKPLACE PRODUCTIVITY OF PERPETRATORS OF INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE IS AFFECTED
New research suggests that greater propensity for abusiveness is associated
with missing work and experiencing worse productivity on the job, according to
researchers Emily Rothman of the Boston University School of Public Health and
Phaedra Corso of the University of Georgia College of
Public Health. The research appears in the September 2008 issue of Violence
Against Women, Volume 14, Number 9, 1054 – 1064.
The researchers
found:
Rothman and Corso recommend that employers consider providing access to
resources to perpetrators through the EAP or through on-site workshops on
stress reduction as a way to provide batterers with information that may
prevent or reduce intimate partner abuse.
Rothman and Corso note that their sample was small
and drawn from one workplace, and more study needs to be done. However, when
taken with other studies in Maine and Massachusetts available on our CAEPV
website, it is clear that perpetrator productivity is affected by intimate
partner abuse.
*All of these workshops might provide an avenue to provide information and
resources on abusive relationships and how to decrease abusive behavior