Negative reciprocity and communication in couples with a violent husband.

Córdova, James V.; Jacobson, Neil S.; Gottman, John M.; Rushe, Regina; Cox, Gary B.

doi:10.1037/0021-843x.102.4.559

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“…The onset of adolescence is an important developmental life stage that involves numerous physical, emotional and sexual changes. During this time, the emergence of romantic relationships plays a pivotal role in adolescent social development (Connolly & McIsaac, 2009 Margolin, & John, 1993;Cordova, Jacobson, Gottman, Rushe, & Cox, 1993;Margolin, John, & Gleberman, 1988). Further, studies have clearly confirmed the importance of communication in marital interaction for both partners' relationship satisfaction (Woodin, 2011).…”

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Dyadic Dynamics in Young Couples Reporting Dating Violence

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2016

J Interpers Violence

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This study uses a combination of observational methods and dyadic data analysis to understand how boyfriends' and girlfriends' perpetration of dating violence may shape their own and their partners' problem-solving communication behaviors. A sample of 39 young heterosexual couples aged between 15 and 20 years (mean age 17.8 years) completed a set of questionnaires and were observed during a 45 minute dyadic interaction, which was coded using the Interactional Dimension Coding System (IDCS). Results suggest that, neither boyfriends nor girlfriends own perpetration of dating violence was related to their display of positive and negative communication behaviors. However, estimates revealed significant partner effects, suggesting that negative communication behaviors displayed by girls and boys and positive communication behavior displayed by girls were associated to their partner's dating violence but not to their own. Such results confirm the need to shift our focus from an individual perspective to examining dyadic influences and processes involved in the couple system and the bi-directionality of violent relationships. Keywords dyadic interaction patterns; adolescence; dating violenceDating violence (DV) is highly prevalent among adolescents and emerging adults, with estimates of reported perpetrated DV ranging between 14% and 82% for psychological violence, 11% and 41% for physical violence, and 3% and 10% for sexual violence (Foshee & Matthew, 2007). The scope of the problem as well as the adverse consequences it can incur on adolescents' physical and mental well-being, have made DV a major public health concern. There has been accumulating evidence that a large proportion of violence in adolescents dating relationships is bidirectional (perpetrated by both partners). For example, a recent review of the literature showed that, on average, 57.5% of intimate partner violence reported across samples (population, community, school and clinical samples) could be categorized as bidirectional (Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Selwyn, & Rohling, 2012). According CIHR Author Manuscript CIHR Author Manuscript CIHR Author Manuscriptto the results of a meta-analytic review by Stith, Smith, Penn, Ward, and Tritt (2004), maleto-female physical violence victimization is a strong predictor of the victim using violence toward her partner. Further, the results from a study on the co-occurrence of partner and parent physical violence found that one partner's aggression against the other increased the risk of female-to-male aggression by five times and of male-to-female aggression by 10 times (Slep & O'Leary, 2005). However, authors point out that the presence of bidirectional violence does not mean that all aspects of female and male violence are symmetrical as many gender differences can still be evident. For example, girls aged 12 to 17 have been found to be more likely to experience physically injurious or fear-inducing incidents of dating violence (Hamby & Turner, 2013).In order to take better account of bi-directionality, i...

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Dyadic Dynamics in Young Couples Reporting Dating Violence

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“…As such, the present findings build on prior work linking aggressive verbalizations to IPA (e.g., by showing that using specific emotion regulatory strategies during instigation may differentially impact the expression of aggressive verbalizations. Although aggressive verbalizations alone have clinical importance because of their potential to interfere with constructive problem solving (Cordova, Jacobson, Gottman, Rushe, & Cox, 1993;Barbour et al, 1998;, it is their role as a possible gateway to partner aggression that calls particular attention to the need for intervention. The linkages found here between emotion regulatory processes and the types of everyday aggressive verbalizations that can give rise to IPA lay groundwork for the development of such interventions.…”

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Can college students use emotion regulation strategies to alter intimate partner aggression-risk behaviors? An examination using I³ theory.

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Hoffman

2015

Psychology of Violence

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Objective: Drawing on Finkel and Eckhardt’s I3 theory (Finkel & Eckhardt, 2013), this experimental study examined the effects of emotion regulatory efforts on aggressive verbalizations during anger arousal. Methods: Participants were 236 male and female college students with and without a history of intimate partner aggression (IPA) perpetration. Participants were randomized to 1 of 3 emotion regulation strategy conditions: cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression, or no instruction. They were trained to use these strategies in response to emotionally evocative dating scenarios presented via the Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations (ATSS) paradigm. Participants’ aggressive verbalizations in response to these scenarios were coded. Results: A significant interaction emerged such that IPA perpetrators trained to use cognitive reappraisal articulated fewer aggressive verbalizations than did non-IPA perpetrators; IPA perpetrators instructed to use expressive suppression tended to articulate more aggressive verbalizations than did non-IPA perpetrators. Conclusions: Findings lend support to some of the major tenets of the I3 model, and suggest that emotion regulation strategies may be important treatment targets for IPA perpetration.

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“…Certain partner behaviors will surely influence the degree to which the individual experiences strong versus weak violenceimpelling and violence-inhibiting forces. Research demonstrates that dyadic processes such as negative reciprocity (in which partners become embroiled in an escalating cycle of reciprocated negativity; Cordova, Jacobson, Gottman, Rushe, & Cox, 1993) and demand/ withdrawal (in which individuals become increasingly demanding of their partner, who withdraws from them; Babcock et al, 1993) predict elevated IPV perpetration. Although these interpersonal processes will likely be mediated in part through situational risk factors such as those listed in Figure 1, they have not been explicitly incorporated into the Impelling/ Inhibiting Model.…”

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Impelling and Inhibiting Forces in the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence

Finkel¹

2007

Review of General Psychology

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The huge corpus of research identifying risk factors for intimate partner violence (IPV) has outpaced theoretical models explaining how these risk factors combine to exert their effects. This report presents a 2-stage process model investigating how a previously nonviolent interaction between intimate partners escalates to IPV. The first stage examines whether at least one partner experiences strong violence-impelling forces, which lead the individual to experience action tendencies toward IPV. The second examines whether the partner experiencing violence-impelling forces suffers from weak violence-inhibiting forces, which would otherwise serve to override such action tendencies. This model extends previous research by emphasizing the importance of inhibitory processes in IPV and by imposing a new conceptual structure on the identified IPV risk factors.

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Negative reciprocity and communication in couples with a violent husband.

Cited by 183 publications

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Dyadic Dynamics in Young Couples Reporting Dating Violence

Dyadic Dynamics in Young Couples Reporting Dating Violence

Can college students use emotion regulation strategies to alter intimate partner aggression-risk behaviors? An examination using I³ theory.

Impelling and Inhibiting Forces in the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence

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