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- Title
Remaining in a situationally aggressive relationship: The role of relationship self-efficacy.
- Authors
BAKER, LEVI R.; COBB, REBECCA A.; MCNULTY, JAMES K.; LAMBERT, NATHANIEL M.; FINCHAM, FRANK D.
- Abstract
Relationship self-efficacy ( RSE) is the belief that one can resolve relationship conflicts, and it may lead victims of situational violence to remain in their relationships because they expect to minimize subsequent violence. Indeed, a longitudinal study of two samples of college students demonstrated that RSE moderates the effects of victimization on relationship dissolution; intimate partner violence ( IPV) victimization was positively associated with dissolution among intimates low in RSE but was unassociated with dissolution among intimates high in RSE. Interestingly, although RSE was negatively associated with dissolution among victims, it was associated with experiencing less subsequent IPV in one sample. Ultimately, whether victims' RSE is adaptive may depend on the extent to which any minimization of conflicts eliminates violence.
- Subjects
INTERPERSONAL relations; INTIMATE partner violence; DATING violence; ABUSIVE relationships; CRIME victims
- Publication
Personal Relationships, 2016, Vol 23, Issue 3, p591
- ISSN
1350-4126
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pere.12145