Citation

Sharpe D, Taylor JK. Can. J. Behav. Sci. 1999; 31(3): 165-175.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Canadian Psychological Association, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1037/h0087085

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Examined individual difference variables derived from a social-developmental perspective to help explain physical and psychological violence in dating relationships. 110 male and 225 female Ss (aged 25 yrs and older) completed measures of physical and psychological violence, self-esteem, personal power, peer relations, romantic love, and dominance. Self-esteem, personal power and peer relations were variables from the social-developmental model that, with dominance, predicted dating violence. Males were more likely to report receiving violence, females more likely to report inflicting violence. Those participants reporting bidirectional physical violence, both receiving and inflicting physical violence, experienced the most frequent physical and psychological violence. The implications of these findings for understanding the origins and the context of dating violence are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)

Keywords

Dating Violence; Intimate Partner Violence; Models; Psychosocial Development; Social Dating; Violence