Remaining in a situationally aggressive relationship:The role of relationship self-efficacy

UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Levi R. Baker, Assistant Professor (Creator)
Institution
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
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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 RSEwas 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.

Additional Information

Publication
Personal Relationships, 23, 591–604.
Language: English
Date: 2016
Keywords
relationship self-efficacy, relationship conflict, situational violence, intimate partner violence

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