Electronic diary assessment of the temporal association between proximal anger and intimate partner violence perpetration.

Elkins, Sara R.; Moore, Todd M.; McNulty, James K.; Kivisto, Aaron J.; Handsel, Vanessa

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“…Participants were asked to indicate, using a BYes/No^format, whether they had engaged in any of the acts of aggression for each subscale the previous day. For both types of aggression separately, participants who reported perpetration were coded with a B1^and participants who reported no perpetration were coded with a B0.^This assessment and scoring method is consistent with other daily diary studies of IPV (e.g., Elkins et al 2013;Moore et al 2011;Stuart et al 2013).…”

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“…In a 60-day prospective daily diary study, Elkins, Moore, McNulty, Kivisto, and Handsel (2013) demonstrated that the odds of psychological (OR=2.78), physical (OR=2.38), and sexual aggression (OR=2.27) perpetration were increased when daily angry affect was high (a combination of anger, hostility, and irritability). This study utilized a college student sample and had participants rate their affect prior to seeing a dating partner each day.…”

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Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association Between Proximal Negative Affect and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

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Negative affect is a central component of many theories of aggressive behavior. Though understudied, it is likely that proximal negative affect increases the odds of aggression perpetration when individuals have poor emotion regulation, but not when individuals have more adaptive emotion regulation. Thus, the current study examined (1) the proximal effect of various indicators of negative affect (e.g., anger, hostility, depression) on intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration and (2) whether poor emotion regulation moderated these associations. For up to 90 consecutive days, male college students (N = 67) in a current dating relationship completed daily surveys on their negative affect and IPV perpetration. Results demonstrated that emotion regulation moderated many of the associations between proximal negative affect and physical aggression perpetration, such that negative affect was associated with increased odds of violence when poor emotion regulation was high but not low. This is the first study to demonstrate the moderating role of emotion regulation in the link between proximal negative affect and IPV perpetration. As such, these findings have important implications for existing theories of IPV and emotion regulation and suggest that interventions may effectively reduce IPV by targeting emotion regulation.

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“…For instance, research on psychological and physical aggression has demonstrated a number of risk factors for perpetration, including trait and state anger (Elkins et al 2013;Parrott and Zeichner 2003), difficulties with emotion regulation (Shorey et al 2011a), mental health symptoms (e.g., PTSD symptoms; Taft et al 2010), witnessing violence in childhood (Carr and Vandeusen 2002), Cluster B personality traits (Hines 2007), and alcohol use (Shorey et al 2011d). It is plausible that these same factors are associated with the perpetration of stalking behaviors.…”

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Stalking in College Student Dating Relationships: A Descriptive Investigation

2015

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Violence in college student dating relationships is a prevalent problem. However, little research has examined stalking, behaviors that have most commonly been examined after relationship termination, not within intact relationships. The purpose of the present study was to descriptively examine the prevalence and frequency of various stalking behaviors among male and female college students in a current dating relationship (N=650). Results demonstrated that the prevalence of some stalking behaviors were as high as 38 % in the previous 6 months. Additionally, out of 15 potential stalking behaviors, men and women only differed on the frequency of one stalking behavior (leaving unwanted items for a partner). Findings demonstrate that stalking behaviors are relatively common among college students in dating relationships.

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“…In a daily diary study, higher proximal anger was also related to a greater probability of perpetrating IPA among a sample of undergraduate students (Elkins, Moore, McNulty, Kivisto, & Handsel, 2013). Together, these findings suggest that negative emotion, and anger specifically, may be proximal risk factors for IPA perpetration.…”

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The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Lab-Based Partner Aggression

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2014

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Intimate partner aggression (IPA) is a serious national health concern that affects an alarming number of individuals and can lead to substantial psychological and physical suffering. Situational risk factors that arise in the immediate context of IPA reflect statelike influences that trigger aggression. Because these factors are more variable and fluctuate according to the situation, they are potentially promising targets for prevention and intervention efforts (e.g., through cognitive and behavioral interventions). Within this realm, two factors in particular appear to play a prominent role in the etiology of IPA: alcohol intoxication and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. In contrast to prior correlational work, the present study experimentally manipulated alcohol consumption and emotion regulatory strategies to assess their individual and combined effects on IPA, which was measured both observationally and through self-report. It was expected that both alcohol intoxication and anger rumination would increase IPA perpetration, whereas reappraisal would result in decreased IPA perpetration. Further, intoxication and emotion regulation strategies were expected to have interactive effects on IPA perpetration such that rumination would enhance associations between alcohol intoxication and aggression, whereas reappraisal would attenuate the relationship between alcohol and IPA perpetration. Hypotheses for the study were partially supported. Findings show that participants in the alcohol condition generally displayed greater IPA than participants in the placebo condition. Emotion regulation strategy condition was not found to affect IPA. When examining only the effects of alcohol and emotion regulation strategy condition, emotion strategy use did not moderate the relationship between alcohol intoxication and IPA. However, alcohol and emotion regulation strategy conditions were found to interact with trait levels of rumination and reappraisal to predict IPA. The implications of these results, future directions for research, and implications for IPA intervention and prevention strategies are discussed. (Harned, 2002;Straus, 2004).Although most research examining IPA has focused on heterosexual couples, IPA also occurs among heterosexual and same sex couples at similar rates (McClennen, 2005).Further, researchers agree that it is important to systematically examine IPA perpetration among both genders (Holtzworth-Munroe, 2005;Johnson, 2006;Straus, 2006) and among both heterosexual and same-sex couples (Fahmy & Fradella, 2014;McCLennen, 2005). 3University students are particularly at risk for IPA, with past-year prevalence rates ranging from approximately 20% to 50% (Cogan & Fennell, 2007; Forke, Myers, Catallozzi, & Schwartz, 2008;Riggs & O'Leary, 1996;Straus, 2004 Identifying demographic and dispositional risk factors provides invaluable information on which individuals are more likely to be aggressive towards their partners.However, these risk factors do not provide information about the specific circumsta...

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Electronic diary assessment of the temporal association between proximal anger and intimate partner violence perpetration.

Cited by 67 publications

References 44 publications

Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association Between Proximal Negative Affect and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

Emotion Regulation Moderates the Association Between Proximal Negative Affect and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration

Stalking in College Student Dating Relationships: A Descriptive Investigation

The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Lab-Based Partner Aggression

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