TY - JOUR
T1 - Physical, psychological, and sexual intimate partner aggression among newlywed couples
T2 - Longitudinal prediction of marital satisfaction
AU - Panuzio, Jillian
AU - DiLillo, David
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by National Institute of Mental Health Grant K01 MH066365 awarded to David DiLillo. We thank the couples who participated in the study and the many graduate and undergraduate students who assisted with data collection. J.Panuzio(*) . D. DiLillo Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 238 Burnett Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0308, USA e-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This study examined associations between physical, psychological, and sexual intimate partner aggression (IPA) perpetration during the first year of marriage (T1) and victim marital satisfaction one (T2) and two (T3) years later among a sample of 202 newlywed couples. Prevalence rates of all forms of IPA were consistent with those documented in prior research. Higher levels of all types of IPA generally were associated with lower victim marital satisfaction at all time points, when controlling for initial levels of satisfaction. Couples who reported severe bidirectional psychological IPA demonstrated lower husband and wife marital satisfaction at T2 and lower husband satisfaction at T3 than couples who reported husband-only, wife-only, or no psychological IPA. Analyses examining the relative predictive abilities of all forms of IPA perpetration showed that psychological IPA was the most consistent unique contributor of victim marital satisfaction. Study findings highlight the importance of psychological IPA, in addition to physical IPA, in examinations of correlates of marital satisfaction.
AB - This study examined associations between physical, psychological, and sexual intimate partner aggression (IPA) perpetration during the first year of marriage (T1) and victim marital satisfaction one (T2) and two (T3) years later among a sample of 202 newlywed couples. Prevalence rates of all forms of IPA were consistent with those documented in prior research. Higher levels of all types of IPA generally were associated with lower victim marital satisfaction at all time points, when controlling for initial levels of satisfaction. Couples who reported severe bidirectional psychological IPA demonstrated lower husband and wife marital satisfaction at T2 and lower husband satisfaction at T3 than couples who reported husband-only, wife-only, or no psychological IPA. Analyses examining the relative predictive abilities of all forms of IPA perpetration showed that psychological IPA was the most consistent unique contributor of victim marital satisfaction. Study findings highlight the importance of psychological IPA, in addition to physical IPA, in examinations of correlates of marital satisfaction.
KW - Marital satisfaction
KW - Partner abuse
KW - Physical aggression
KW - Psychological aggression
KW - Sexual aggression
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U2 - 10.1007/s10896-010-9328-2
DO - 10.1007/s10896-010-9328-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77955095162
SN - 0885-7482
VL - 25
SP - 689
EP - 699
JO - Journal of Family Violence
JF - Journal of Family Violence
IS - 7
ER -