BATTERING AND THE MALE REJECTION OF INFLUENCE FROM WOMEN

The propensity of men to reject influence from women and individual di fferences in this tendency were examined in the present report as pote ntially related to two types of domestically violent men. We operation alized rejection of influence in sequential analyses of emotional beha vior during a 15 min marital interaction. In our previous research, we identified two types of batterers: Type-1, whose heart rates decelera ted below baseline during the marital interaction; and Type-2, whose h eart rates accelerated, We found that only Type-1 husbands reject any and all influence from their wives, We postulate that Type-1 batterers reject influence as a means of maintaining power and control. (C) 199 7 Wiley-Liss, Inc.