A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners
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Department of Psychology, University of ArizonaIssue Date
2021Keywords
intimate partner violencelife history theory
mate retention behaviors
partner infidelity risk
self-regulation
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SAGE Publications Inc.Citation
Kaighobadi, F., Figueredo, A. J., Shackelford, T. K., & Bjorklund, D. F. (2021). A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men’s Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners. Evolutionary Psychology.Journal
Evolutionary PsychologyRights
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Conceptually driven by life history theory, the current study investigated a hypothesized hierarchy of behaviors leading to men's perpetration of violence in intimate relationships. Using a series of hierarchical regressions, we tested a causal cascade model on data provided by 114 men in a committed romantic relationship. The results supported the hypothesized hierarchy of sociodevelopmental events: (1) men's childhood experiences with their parents’ parental effort predicted men's life history strategies; (2) men's life history strategies predicted men's behavioral self-regulation; (3) men's self-regulation predicted men's perceptions of partner infidelity risk; (4) perceptions of infidelity risk predicted men's frequency of engagement in nonviolent mate retention behaviors; (5) men's mate retention behaviors predicted men's frequency of partner-directed violence. The overall cascade model explained 36% of variance in men's partner-directed violence. © The Author(s) 2021.Note
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1474-7049Version
Final published versionae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/14747049211040751
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