Considering context

Current relationship satisfaction in a second‐generation model of men's physical intimate partner violence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21319862
AutoresAmy M Smith Slep (0000-0002-6321-1740, Family Translational Research Group New York University New York New York USA, autor de correspondencia), Richard E Heyman (0000-0002-5365-0037, Family Translational Research Group New York University New York New York USA), Kelly A Daly (0000-0003-0222-0245, Family Translational Research Group New York University New York New York USA), Katherine J W Baucom (0000-0002-0011-2526, Department of Psychology University of Utah Salt Lake City Utah USA)
Año2024
Volumen63
Número4
Páginas2400-2415
Fecha de publicación2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFamily Process (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-7370 • E-ISSN: 1545-5300
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/famp.13010
PMID38802987
OpenAlexW4399098757
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas86

Despite a half‐century of scholarship devoted to explicating and disrupting the intergenerational transmission of family violence, it remains a prominent and destructive social force in the United States. Theoretical models have posited a variety of historical and concurrent risk and protective factors implicated in the trajectory from childhood violence exposure to adult perpetration. Using a second‐generation model of intimate partner violence (IPV), we integrated social learning and attachment conceptualizations to examine pathways from family‐of‐origin violence to IPV perpetration among adult men. A sample of mixed‐sex couples ( N = 233) completed self‐report measures related to social learning and attachment‐based factors (e.g., violence in past relationships, child exposure, IPV attitudes, adult attachment) and participated in a 10‐min conversation about a desired area for change in their relationship. Following, each partner participated in a video‐mediated‐recall procedure assessing their anger volatility and eliciting attributions of their partners' behavior. We tested mediation pathways (consistent with social learning and attachment theories) between violence in men's families of origin and their adult IPV perpetration as a function of relationship satisfaction. The proposed model fit the data well (CFI = 0.95) but had notable modifications from the hypothesized model. Generally, social‐learning pathways were more consistent with the data. Relationship satisfaction interacted with some parameters. Results support theoretical advances in understanding IPV. Although exposure to violence in men's family of origin confers risk for later IPV, and a social learning developmental pathway is consistent with results, some of these effects are altered by relationship context

Context (archaeology) · Developmental psychology · Domestic violence · Mediation · Medical emergency · Poison control · Suicide prevention · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child Abuse and Trauma · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology