Finding Common Patterns in Domestic Violence Stories Posted on Reddit
Mohammad Mahdi Shokri, Emily Klapper, Jason Shan, Sarah Ita Levitan · 2025
Domestic violence survivors often share their experiences in online spaces, offering valuable insights into common abuse patterns.This study analyzes a dataset of personal narratives about domestic violence from Reddit, focusing on event extraction and topic modeling to uncover recurring themes.We evaluate GPT-4 and LLaMA-3.1 for extracting key sentences, finding that GPT-4 exhibits higher precision, while LLaMA-3.1 achieves better recall.Using LLMbased topic assignment, we identify dominant themes such as psychological aggression, financial abuse, and physical assault which align with previously published psychology findings.A co-occurrence and PMI analysis further reveals the interdependencies among different abuse types, emphasizing the multifaceted nature of domestic violence.Our findings provide a structured approach to analyzing survivor narratives, with implications for social support systems and policy interventions.