One in three Australian men admit to committing intimate partner abuse: study

One successful 3 Australian men person admitted to committing friendly partner violence, caller world-leading investigation has found.

The Australian Institute of Family Studies' Ten to Men study is nan biggest of its kind.

In 2013-2014, it began monitoring astir 16,000 boys, and a decade later added a further 10,000 men to nan research.

Intimate partner unit aliases IPV is defined arsenic beingness and affectional abuse.

When first surveyed successful 2013-2014, astir one-in-four men reported having utilized IPV, pinch this number expanding to 1 successful 3 from nan aforesaid cohort of men by 2022.

Emotional-type maltreatment was nan astir communal shape of IPV, pinch 32 per cent of men successful 2022 saying they'd made an friendly partner consciousness "frightened aliases anxious".

Men pinch mean aliases terrible slump were 62 per cent much apt to show IPV by 2022, compared to men without these symptoms.

But nan investigation besides recovered men who knowledgeable beardown societal support and an affectionate paternal narration were little apt to maltreatment partners.

Men who reported precocious levels of societal support were 26 per cent little apt to study utilizing IPV.

Those who felt they had a value narration pinch a begetter aliases begetter fig during childhood, marked pinch affection, were 48 per cent little apt to study committing IPV.

The Australian Institute of Family Studies says it hopes nan study's findings will punctual authorities and national governments to tackle IPV.

"This unsocial information set, pursuing men complete a ten-year period, confirms nan grade of nan problem," nan institute's director, Liz Neville, said.

"With an estimated 120,000 men starting to usage friendly partner unit each twelvemonth crossed Australia, we tin spot much intelligibly really delays successful effective interventions tin person devastating consequences."

Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek said nan findings were concerning, but not surprising.

"It's captious that we look astatine nan factors that mightiness lead to unit truthful we tin make judge we're backing programs that extremity it astatine nan start," she said.

Support is disposable from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732).