eonard and Roberts used for their study. The groups that they used was a group of physically aggressive married couples where the husband had shown some form of physical abuse towards their wife within the first year of their marriage. The second group was a group of married couples in which the husband did not physically abuse their wives. They stated 2 hypothesis for their effect of alcohol on the study, the study in which the alcohol was taken by the husband they expected to see a great increase in aggression by the husband towards their wives by the couples which had stated past aggressive behavior. They did expect a little aggression in the couples that had no prior aggressive behavior, but far less that in the other couples. The participants that they recruited were 60 couples of past aggressive occurrences and 75 couples of no past aggressive behavior. The couples were paid and transported for the study. The participants were recruited from a Buffalo Newlywed Study and also through advertisements in newspapers for the study. The participants for the study were put through a screening where they had to meet certain criteria such as being married between 1 to 3 years, and the husband had to be between 21 to 33. The couples were picked for the 2 different groups the aggressive group having some kind of report of physical aggression and the other group was the group in which there was never any sort of physical aggression since the couple had been married. They did not include couples in which there had been great amounts of physical abuse. Leonard and Roberts also decided to study the differences between the groups and found there not to be any obstantial differences. There were a number of measures assessed in Leonard and Roberts study. The first measure was separated into two pieces. It asked about premarital aggression and then marital aggression. The second measure was verbal aggression, which was thrown in with t...
