Deck 8: Stress and Violence: Realities of Family Life

Question 1

Which statement is true regarding stress and violence?

A) Stress does not always lead to violence.
B) Stress always leads to violence.
C) Violence always results from stress.
D) There is no relation between stress and violence.

Answer 1

Stress does not always lead to violence.

Question 2

Which of the following defines the term stressor?

A) Something that results from stress, a symptom.
B) A demand that threatens the relations between family members.
C) Somebody who is always stressed out, a stress case.
D) Somebody who stresses other people out.

Answer 2

A demand that threatens the relations between family members.

Question 3

Which models is used to explain the effects of stressor events on families?

A) ABCD family response model
B) ABCX family crisis model
C) stress-response paradigm
D) social resources model

Answer 3

ABCX family crisis model

Question 4

In the ABCX family crisis model described by Hill (1949), what does "A" represent?

A) the crisis
B) the family's coping resources
C) the stressor
D) the subjective interpretation of the stressor

Question 5

In the ABCX family crisis model described by Hill (1949), what does "B" represent?

A) the stressor
B) the interpretation of the stressor
C) coping resources
D) the degree of violence

Question 6

In the ABCX family crisis model described by Hill (1949),what does "C" represent?

A) the stressor
B) the interpretation of the stressor
C) coping resources
D) the degree of violence

Question 7

In the ABCX family crisis model described by Hill (1949), what does "X" represent?

A) the solution to the crisis
B) the consequence(s) of the crisis
C) the crisis
D) the stressor

Question 8

What, when measured, can provide an objective evaluation of a family stressor?

A) family members' interpretations of the event
B) family members' interpretations of their coping abilities
C) family members' interpretations of each other's survival efficacy
D) the duration and frequency of the event

Question 9

What does sociology use to approach the study of family stress?

A) Sociology uses qualitative measures; psychology uses quantitative measures.
B) Sociology focuses on the consequences of family stress, while psychology focuses on the causes.
C) Sociology focuses on how stress changes the system of roles and relationships that make up a family.
D) Sociology emphasized the role of the state; psychology emphasized the role of
The individual.

Question 10

What are common categories of family stress described in the textbook?

A) chronic stressors, occasional stressors, social stressors, and illness
B) major life transitions, minor life transitions, chronic stressors, and acute stressors
C) illness, life transitions, sudden changes, and economic stressors
D) major upheavals, major life transitions, chronic stressors, and occasional stressors

Question 11

What type of stressor does a family who emigrates to Canada experience?

A) major upheaval
B) major life transition
C) chronic stressor
D) occasional stress

Question 12

What factors leads family members experiencing effect of war to be drawn closer together?

A) already cohesive to begin with
B) dysfunctional beforehand
C) injured in the conflict
D) morally and politically in favor of the war

Question 13

What is an example of a major life transition?

A) an earthquake
B) the death of a loved one
C) drug or alcohol abuse
D) university exams

Question 14

Which types of family stressors would war and natural disasters be an example of?

A) occasional stressors
B) major life transitions
C) major upheavals
D) chronic stressors

Question 15

Which types of family stressors would disruptions that affect some family members but not others be an example of?

A) occasional stressors
B) major life transitions
C) major upheavals
D) chronic stressors

Question 16

Which types of family stressors would such as disability, severe physical or mental illness be an example of?

A) occasional stressors
B) major life transitions
C) major upheavals
D) chronic stressors

Question 17

Which types of family stressors would such as car accidents, burglaries, and seemingly pleasant but stressful stimuli like family vacation trips be an example of?

A) occasional stressors
B) major life transitions
C) major upheavals
D) chronic stressors

Question 18

What factor is included when describing acculturative stress?

A) local language skills
B) employment
C) low economic status
D) educational background

Question 19

Living with which type of parents can cause children and teenagers to experience persistent poverty?

A) same-sex partners
B) lone fathers
C) lone mothers
D) unmarried mothers and fathers

Question 20

Which factors help Somali immigrants to promote family strength?

A) religious and cultural traditions
B) access to health care services
C) racism and discrimination
D) employment opportunities

Question 21

Which statement about family care giving is correct?

A) Care giving for elderly or chronically ill family members creates a bigger burden for men than women.
B) Many men in their 40s and 50s can expect to be part of the sandwich generation.
C) Caregivers infrequently must alter their own social lives to accommodate the person in need.
D) Care giving strain can lead to health problems for the caregiver as well.

Question 22

Which of the following describes a "caregiving family"?

A) immediate family members only
B) immediate family members and extended relatives
C) people who provide assistance and people with a duty to provide assistance who do not
D) people who provide assistance to needy family members only

Question 23

What role do supportive networks have on care giving, work, and family-role strain?

A) reverse
B) increase
C) eliminate
D) buffer

Question 24

What is a material resource for coping with stress?

A) time
B) money
C) energy
D) property

Question 25

Which types of resources would include having feelings of trust and affection for other family members?

A) time
B) money
C) energy
D) property

Question 26

What is a consequence of families experiencing economic stress?

A) Chronic economic stress can eventually cause marriages to dissolve and parent-child bonds to decline.
B) Occasional economic stress can eventually cause marriages to dissolve and parent-child bonds to decline.
C) Occasional economic stress can eventually cause marriages to dissolve but parent-child bonds to increase.
D) Occasional economic stress can eventually cause marriages to strengthen but parent-child bonds to decline.

Question 27

How do we define illness?

A) inevitable and fully debilitating
B) fully preventable and partly blamed on the sick person
C) always cured and dependent upon social networks
D) partly biological and partly a socially performed drama

Question 28

What may lead patients to look for help from support groups?

A) When patients want more information and reassurance than their doctors have time to provide.
B) When the illness is severe and stigmatized by the general population.
C) When patients do not have access to the internet for their own research purposes of their illness.
D) When caregivers get stressed or experience strain and push the patient to seek other forms of assistance.

Question 29

Which of the following statements about social support networks is correct?

A) Social networks typically fail to provide emotional and instrumental assistance.
B) Social networks get people to use the health care system regularly.
C) Research suggests that few poor people maintain social networks.
D) Social networks increase the risk of making poor health care decisions.

Question 30

Which of the following statements about stress and violence is correct?

A) Single mothers are more prone to depression because of stress from having to handle everything on their own.
B) A study revealed that lone mothers who experience poverty and poor mental health were least likely to give frequent or severe punishment.
C) The consumption of alcohol alone always leads to a higher incidence of family violence, especially for men.
D) Violence among homosexual couples occurs for different reasons than among heterosexual couples.

Question 31

How do forms of social media such as online support groups support those with chronic illnesses or their caregivers?

A) Members are referred to private therapists and counsellors through these sites.
B) Social media provides no support for the chronically ill, only their caregivers.
C) Individual members pay a fee for referral to a therapist or psychiatrist.
D) The groups establish virtual communities that provide moral support to their members.

Question 32

What characteristic is common among online support group members for the chronically ill or their caregivers?

A) Participants tend to be overwhelmingly male.
B) Participants tend to be older than 65 years of age.
C) Participants have minimal formal education.
D) Participants tend to be living in rural communities rather than urban ones.

Question 33

What types of resources do all families possess to some degree?

A) financial, emotional
B) social, and cultural capital
C) coping skills, and capital
D) leadership, coping skills

Question 34

Which statement about the usefulness of online support groups for the chronically ill and their caregivers is correct?

A) The virtual communities are less effective than in-person support groups.
B) Online support communities provide support and useful information; they also help people build relationships over the internet and are an ideal outlet for caretakers.
C) Online communities do not provide long-term support for individuals who participate in them.
D) Online social support groups provide mostly erroneous information that leads to further health complications for their members.

Question 35

What is a problem in the academic study of family violence?

A) a failure of researchers to acknowledge the extent of domestic abuse in Canada
B) a lack of consensus between disciplines concerning the definition of family violence
C) a tendency to overestimate the prevalence of child abuse in North America
D) a prejudice among researchers to automatically label men as the perpetrators of abuse

Question 36

What describes the relationship between small acts of violence and the gender of the perpetuator?

A) Men are equally likely as women to commit them.
B) Men are more likely to commit them than women.
C) Women are more likely to commit them than men.
D) Women are most likely to commit them.

Question 37

Which statement about nonphysical abuse is correct?

A) Emotional abuse can be as damaging to a child as physical or sexual abuse.
B) Physical abuse is infrequently accompanied by emotional abuse.
C) Emotional abuse is typically less damaging to victims than physical abuse.
D) Nonphysical abuse is studied separately from family violence.

Question 38

Which of the following describes intimate partner violence (IPV)?

A) violence between two individuals involving pushing, shoving, and slapping
B) abuse between intimate partners
C) verbal abuse resulting from heated arguments
D) violence involving weapons such as guns and knives

Question 39

What problem have sociologists encountered when attempting to determine the prevalence of family violence in our society?

A) Social workers' case files and hospital records are kept confidential.
B) Much information on family violence comes from news stories, which can be unreliable.
C) People always report their experiences/behaviours accurately.
D) Sufficient sampling and measurements are achievable.

Question 40

Men are more likely to beat or kill their intimate partners to protect which of the following?

A) material goods
B) what they view as the "sexual property"
C) their children
D) themselves

Question 41

Women are more likely to hurt or kill their intimate partners to protect which of the following?

A) material goods
B) what they view as the "sexual property"
C) themselves
D) their self-esteem

Question 42

What is the single best predictor of violent behaviour towards a partner?

A) alcohol or drug consumption
B) experience of violence at the hands of partner or parent or having witnessed violence as a child
C) low income and chronic unemployment of husbands or fathers
D) personality traits such as stubbornness and control

Question 43

What variable is associated with higher likelihood of engaging in, or experiencing, domestic violence?

A) lack of experience of violence
B) matriarchal attitudes
C) interactional styles
D) status consistency

Question 44

What happens to adult women who were abused as girls?

A) They become abusers.
B) They internalize their problems.
C) They develop an addiction.
D) They suffer from depression.

Question 45

What happens to adult men who were abused as boys?

A) They become abusers.
B) They internalize their problems.
C) They develop an addiction.
D) They suffer from depression.

Question 46

What would support the argument that domestic violence is an interactional problem?

A) child abuse usually occurs when both adults are present.
B) domestic violence is linked to other social problems such as alcohol abuse and poverty.
C) family abuse is best understood sociologically in terms of the symbolic interactionist approach.
D) violence results from dysfunctional relationship processes involving both adults.

Question 47

What defines status inconsistency?

A) Another term for inferiority complex.
B) A sense of violence and rage directed at women and children with lower social ranking.
C) The excessive use of status as a justification for violence.
D) A state in which one does not quite fit into any social class.

Question 48

Which of the following statements about male violence is correct?

A) Some men commit domestic violence accidentally.
B) Men are more likely than women to kill to protect what they view as their
Sexual property.
C) Men are less likely than women to kill themselves after killing their partners.
D) Income disparity between husband and wife predicts the occurrence of
Wife abuse when the wife makes money.

Question 49

What is social isolation a common predictor of?

A) physical child abuse
B) husband-to-wife physical abuse
C) husband-to-wife psychological abuse
D) husband-to-wife sexual abuse

Question 50

Which of the following statements about cultural attitudes and domestic violence is correct?

A) Indigenous tribes are exclusively patrilineal, which makes domestic violence a common occurrence.
B) Male authority and socioeconomic stress are associated with violence against women in Indigenous communities.
C) Immigrant Mexicans in the U.S. are more violent than U.S.-born Mexican Americans.
D) Education and income fail to explain rates of domestic violence among U.S.-born Mexican Americans.

Question 51

Which of the following behaviours does a coercively controlling husband engage in?

A) He allows her to have access to the family income.
B) He wants his wife to talk to other men.
C) He fails to limit his wife's contact with family or friends.
D) He insists on knowing where she is always.

Question 52

Which statement about same-sex violence is correct?

A) It is just as prevalent in the gay and lesbian community as it is in the heterosexual community.
B) Men report higher frequencies of physical violence than women.
C) Partner violence is less prevalent in the gay and lesbian community than in the heterosexual community.
D) Low income is correlated with increased threats and sexual abuse.

Question 53

Which of the following is a type of psychological abuse against older adults?

A) Financial manipulation or exploitation and is done without consent.
B) Efforts to dehumanize or intimidate older adults or any act that reduces their sense of self-worth or dignity.
C) Any act of violence, whether it results in injury such as beating, burning or scalding.
D) Failing to provide adequate nutrition, clothing, personal care and safe and comfortable conditions.

Question 54

Which of the following is a type of physical abuse against older adults?

A) Financial manipulation or exploitation and is done without consent.
B) Efforts to dehumanize or intimidate older adults or any act that reduces their sense of self-worth or dignity.
C) Any act of violence, whether it results in injury such as beating, burning or scalding.
D) Failing to provide adequate nutrition, clothing, personal care and safe and comfortable conditions.

Question 55

Which of the following is a type of financial abuse against older adults?

A) Financial manipulation or exploitation and is done without consent.
B) Efforts to dehumanize or intimidate older adults or any act that reduces their sense of self-worth or dignity.
C) Any act of violence, whether it results in injury such as beating, burning or scalding.
D) Failing to provide adequate nutrition, clothing, personal care and safe and comfortable conditions.

Question 56

Which of the following is a myth about feminist perspectives on IPV?

A) They argue women who are targeted do not always passively stand by and allow the abuse to continue.
B) They frame men as power-hungry abusers and women as their helpless victims.
C) They argue situational violence is not used to gain power or control.
D) They argue IPV is inflicted on different people, for different reasons, with different results.

Question 57

Which of the following is a genuine feminist perspective on IPV?

A) Women passively stand by and allow the abuse to continue.
B) Men are framed as power hungry abusers.
C) Situational violence is used to gain power or control.
D) IPV is inflicted on different people, for different reasons, with different results.

Question 58

What is the incidence of PTSD in women who were abused by their partners?

A) 50%
B) 16%
C) 75%
D) 8%

Question 59

Why do some women stay in violent or abusive relationship?

A) They fear their partners will get custody of their children and be denied access.
B) Some have resources and a place to go.
C) It is a cycle of abuse where perpetrators apologize and say it will never happen again.
D) The social pressure to be in a relationship is weaker than wanting to escape the abusive relationship.

Question 60

What percentage of children witness IPV?

A) 33%.
B) 20%
C) 5%.
D) over 52%

Question 61

Identify and briefly describe any three categories of the common stressors facing most families.

Question 62

What is acculturative stress and to whom does it typically apply?

Question 63

What are chronic stressors and how do they affect families?

Question 64

Discuss which social groups experience IPV?

Question 65

Identify the types of problems associated with caregiver burnout.

Question 66

Family violence is an umbrella term for many types of family violence. Identify three types of family violence described in your text.

Question 67

When it comes to family violence, what exactly does the Conflict Tactics scale do?

Question 68

Discuss the role of previous violence in family violence.

Question 69

Identify the role of power and control as some causes of violence between intimate partners.

Question 70

Identify any three types of abuse against older adults.

Question 71

Elaborate on the significance and the meaning of the ABCX model of family crisis. Ensure you adequately define each component of this model along with examples to illustrate your meaning.

Question 72

Compare feminist perspectives with so called "feminist myths" on IPV.

Question 73

Elaborate on a discussion of why many women do not leave their abusive partner. What reasons do they have for remaining in the relationship?