National Family Violence Survey, 1985

The "National Family Violence Survey" is the second of four related studies, conducted between 1975 and 1987. The study employs a Conflict Tactics Scale. Topics in the study cover general demographic and socioeconomic characteristics ; occupation; marital status; pregnancy; children and child behavior problems; parent-child role relationships; verbal or physical aggression; child injuries; marital conflict; husband-wife relations; marital violence events; medical, police and court interventions; forced sex and fear of violence; deterrence and steps taken to end violence; help seeking behavior; physical aggression and crime outside the family; substance abuse; and physical and mental health. Documentation contains codes on how scales and indexes were computed. Documentation also contains details on survey methods and a list of publications. N=4032 for national level data; an oversample of African Ame ricans contains 502 respondents; an oversample of Hispanics contains 510 respondents; state level oversampling yielded an additional 958 respondents.