Battered women's compliance‐gaining strategies as a function of argumentativeness and verbal aggression

Abstract

examined the types of verbally aggressive messages that abusive couples used prior to violent acts. Their findings suggest that violent couples use different messages than do nonviolent couples. Infante and his colleagues (1989) advanced an Argumentative Skills Deficiency Model of Interspousal Violence (ASD), which holds that husbands and wives involved in violent marriages are less argumentative and more verbally aggressive than nonviolent couples. Research indicates that message selection is, in part, a Junction of trait verbal aggression

Verbal aggression in sibling relationships

“…Coefficient alphas in this study were .87 (M = 23.47, SD = 7.66) for self verbal aggressiveness and .91 (M = 26.52, SD = 9.67) for sibling verbal aggressiveness. The means for verbal aggressiveness were consistent with previous research (Martin & Anderson, 1995a, 1996bRudd et al, 1994).…”

“…Previous studies have found this 10-item version to be reliable and valid Martin & Anderson, 1995b, 1996a, 1996bRudd, Burant, & Beatty, 1994). Items included: I attack the character of my sibling when attempting to influence him/her.…”

Roommate similarity: Are roommates who are similar in their communication traits more satisfied?

“…Others have reported reliability and validity for the 10-item version (Infante, Anderson, Martin, Herington, & Kim, 1993;Rudd, Burant, & Beatty, 1994). Reliability analysis of the 10-item, 5-point Likert-type, version produced a coefficient alpha of .82.…”

Topics of conflict and patterns of aggression in romantic relationships

“…CONFLICT AND AGGRESSION 181 cock, Waltz, Jacobson, & Gottman, 1993;Sagrestano, Heavey, & Christensen, 1999), verbal aggression (Infante, Chandler, & Rudd, 1989;Infante, Sabourin, Rudd, & Shannon, 1990), and aggressive compliance gaining tactics (deTurck, 1987;Rudd, Beatty, & Burant, 1994).…”