Trauma exposure and aggression toward partners and children: Contextual influences of fear and anger.

Marshall, Amy D.; Roettger, Michael E.; Mattern, Alexandra C.; Feinberg, Mark E.; Jones, Damon

doi:10.1037/fam0000405

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“…The study offered a rare chance to analyze the findings in light of the continuing epidemic. Consistent with prior findings (Marshall et al, 2018 ), our results also showed that those exposed to COVID-19 tended to report more anxiety and aggression, furthermore to the anxiety’s complete mediation role on the connection between exposure to COVID-19 and aggression. However, on the basis of the differential susceptibility hypothesis (Valkenburg, P. M., & Peter, J., 2013 ), the risk of aggression is expected to vary based on the individual’s unique risk and protective factors.…”

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Exposure to COVID-19 and aggression: the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of rumination

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Curr Psychol

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The pandemic of COVID-19 is now posing a worldwide hazard to one’s health. Exposure to COVID-19 may cause negative emotions like anxiety, which is one of recognized risk factors for aggressive behaviors. This study looked into the effect of exposure to COVID-19 on aggression and how anxiety may act as a mediating factor, as well as lastly how rumination could moderate a variety of indirect paths during the epidemic of COVID-19. According to the current study’s findings, which included a sizable sample of Chinese college students (N = 1,518), being exposed to COVID-19 showed a positive connection with aggression and anxiety, as well as rumination. These findings clarify the role that mediators play in the relationship between anxiety and exposure to COVID-19. The results are also helpful for personalizing treatments and putting preventative measures in place to decrease the aggression brought on by exposure to COVID-19. It is explored how lowering rumination and anxiety may be useful in the context of COVID-19 to lessen the psychopathological effects of the condition.

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Exposure to COVID-19 and aggression: the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of rumination

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“…Three incidents are then selected for review and probing of the context of aggression. The selection algorithm prioritizes incidents with the greatest number of aggressive behaviors and incidents in which spillover occurred while balancing incidents of IPA with incidents of PCA (see decision tree in Marshall, Roettger, Mattern, Feinberg, & Jones, 2018). Thus, for each interview, the number of IPA incidents probed can vary from zero (if no IPA was reported) to three (if three incidents of IPA, but no PCA, were reported).…”

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Children’s emotional and behavioral reactions to interparental aggression: The role of exposure to within-incident, cross-dyad aggression spillover.

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Feinberg

Daly

2019

Journal of Family Psychology

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Despite children’s frequent exposure to psychological and physical intimate partner aggression (IPA) and associated long-term consequences, little is known about children’s immediate, within-incident reactions to IPA. Additionally, differences in reactions to IPA based on exposure to within-incident “spillover” of aggression across interparental and parent–child dyads have previously remained unexamined. Parents of children age 2.5 years at study commencement (N = 203 from 111 families) reported on incidents of family aggression four times for 1 year. Among select IPA incidents with the child present (n = 163 incidents from 73 families), IPA severity and children’s exposure to aggression spillover were uniquely associated with children’s expression of greater fear. Moreover, children unexposed to spillover experienced high fear only during relatively severe IPA incidents, whereas spillover-exposed children experienced high fear regardless of IPA severity (supporting observations of fear reactivity in response to low-level threats). Additionally, IPA severity positively predicted, and spillover exposure negatively predicted, children’s attempts to make peace or solve the problem for their parents. Further, spillover-exposed children were more likely to withdraw or attempt to make peace during relatively more severe incidents of IPA. Thus, spillover-exposed children may manage their fear during relatively severe IPA incidents by withdrawing and/or engaging in active peacemaking behaviors but not by using other methods that may increase risk of aggression turning toward them. These results extend existing research, illustrate the unique predictive value of within-incident aggression spillover, and provide a foundation for understanding mechanisms through which IPA affects children in a diversity of ways.

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“…With regard to antecedents of IPV perpetration, trait‐level characteristics that are hypothesized to function as situational antecedents are well‐established (Capaldi et al, 2012), and effectively serve to identify individuals who may be at risk for perpetration. For example, meta‐analyses suggest that two common trait level characteristics strongly associated with IPV perpetration are shame and anger (e.g., Lawrence & Taft, 2013; Norlander & Eckhardt, 2005), and there is some evidence that anger may be a salient emotional state immediately before incidents of aggression (Marshall et al, 2018). However, less research exists in regard to the internal consequences of IPV perpetration, which could inform a complete functional analysis of the behavior and reduce the risk for further perpetration.…”

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Development and validation of the Moral Outcomes of Relationship Aggression Scale: A measure of moral distress following intimate partner violence perpetration

Taverna

Marshall

2022

Aggressive Behavior

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Research with military veterans has established that distress may arise in response to perpetrating violent behaviors that violate individuals' moral beliefs. To date, no studies have similarly examined morally‐related cognitive and emotional responses specifically among intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators. However, research on moral cognitions and emotions in response to IPV perpetration may inform understanding of the behavior and potential mechanisms for intervention. In the current series of four studies, we used classical test theory to develop a measure of moral distress following IPV perpetration that focuses on thoughts about the actions (assimilated cognitions), thoughts about the self due to one's actions (accommodated cognitions), and emotions experienced due to one's actions (moral emotions). Items were developed and tested among two samples of undergraduate students, and psychometric properties of the final measure were confirmed among two community samples. The final measure consists of three subscales consisting of five items each. Results demonstrate support for internal consistency and test–retest reliability, convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity, and factor structure. This measure can be used in future research designed to examine how individuals respond to their IPV perpetration, and to study the implications this may have for long‐term outcomes and behavioral change.

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Trauma exposure and aggression toward partners and children: Contextual influences of fear and anger.

Cited by 6 publications

References 60 publications

Exposure to COVID-19 and aggression: the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of rumination

Exposure to COVID-19 and aggression: the mediating role of anxiety and the moderating role of rumination

Children’s emotional and behavioral reactions to interparental aggression: The role of exposure to within-incident, cross-dyad aggression spillover.

Development and validation of the Moral Outcomes of Relationship Aggression Scale: A measure of moral distress following intimate partner violence perpetration

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