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Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces), Excessive Alcohol Use And Intimate Partner Violence (Ipv) Perpetration Among Black Men: A Latent Class Analysis, Kerry Lee, Paul Sacco, Charlotte Lyn Bright
Adverse Childhood Experiences (Aces), Excessive Alcohol Use And Intimate Partner Violence (Ipv) Perpetration Among Black Men: A Latent Class Analysis, Kerry Lee, Paul Sacco, Charlotte Lyn Bright
Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research Faculty Research and Scholarship
Background
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been linked to subsequent intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration and alcohol use. Although higher rates of ACEs are found in racial/ethnic minority populations, there is a paucity of research examining ACEs patterns and risk for IPV perpetration and excessive alcohol use among Black men.
Objective
To identify homogeneous subgroups based on ACEs among Black men using latent class analysis and assessing risk for later IPV perpetration and excessive alcohol consumption in adulthood.
Methods
Using a sample of Black men (n = 2306) from Wave 2 of the National Epidemiologic Survey of Alcohol and …