Characteristics of male partners of adult female incest survivors

Interpersonal functioning among women reporting a history of childhood sexual abuse: empirical findings and methodological issues

“…The only published investigation to explore this issue is somewhat inconclusive regarding differences between partners of abused and nonabused women. Lambourn-Kavcic and Day (1995) predicted that male partners of incest survivors would report greater tendencies toward dependency and exploitation, as well as a sense of entitlement and greater overall levels of narcissism. Personality measures administered to 30 incest survivor partners and 30 nonincest survivor partners revealed none of the expected differences on these variables.…”