Citation

Cui M, Durtschi JA, Donnellan MB, Lorenz FO, Conger RD. J. Fam. Psychol. 2010; 24(6): 688-697.

Affiliation

Department of Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/a0021675

PMID

21171767

PMCID

PMC3296128

Abstract

The present study examined whether physical and verbal aggression in the family of origin were associated with similar patterns of aggression in young adult couples. Hypotheses were tested using a sample of 213 focal individuals who were followed from adolescence to adulthood. Results suggested that aggression in the family when focal participants were adolescents predicted aggression with romantic partners when participants were adults. The association between interparental aggression and later aggression in adult romantic unions was partially mediated through parents' aggression to focal participants when they were adolescents. Both physical and verbal aggression revealed the same pattern of findings. All together, these findings are consistent with a developmental-interactional perspective (Capaldi & Gorman-Smith, 2003) concerning the developmental origins of aggression in intimate relationships. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved).

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