Citation

Shorey RC, Cornelius TL, Idema C. Violence Vict. 2011; 26(3): 271-282.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996, USA. rshorey@utk.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, Springer Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

21846017

Abstract

Recent research has demonstrated the devastating impact of female-perpetrated psychological aggression in intimate relationships broadly and dating relationships specifically. With the perpetration of psychological aggression in dating relationships occurring at shockingly high rates, prevention programming for dating violence should target this form of aggression. Toward this end, it is important to understand the antecedent conditions that increase one's risk for perpetrating psychological aggression. This study sought to examine two possible risk factors for perpetrating psychological aggression among female undergraduates (N = 145), namely, emotion regulation and trait anger. Findings showed that difficulties with emotion regulation and trait anger were associated with increased psychological aggression perpetration, and trait anger mediated the link between emotion regulation and psychological aggression. Implications of these findings for prevention programming and future research are discussed.

Language: en