scholarly journals Neural Mechanisms of Intimate Partner Aggression

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Chester ◽  
Alexandra Martelli ◽  
Samuel James West ◽  
Emily Lasko ◽  
Phoebe Brosnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Brain Activity ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Partner Aggression ◽  
Racially Diverse ◽  
Romantic Couples ◽  
Medial Cortex ◽  
Neural Reactivity ◽  
Regulatory Functions ◽  
Intimate Partner Aggression

People sometimes hurt those they profess to love; yet our understanding of intimate partner aggression (IPA) and its causes remains incomplete. We examined brain activity using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in an ethnically and racially diverse sample of 50 female-male, monogamous romantic couples as they completed an aggression task against their intimate partner, a close friend, and a different-sex stranger. Laboratory and real-world IPA were uniquely associated with altered activity within and connectivity between cortical midline structures that subserve social cognition and the computation of value. Men’s IPA most corresponded to lower posterior cingulate reactivity during provocation and women’s IPA most corresponded to lower ventromedial prefrontal cortex activity during IPA itself. Actor-partner independence modeling suggested women’s IPA may correspond to their male partner’s neural reactivity to provocation. Broadly, these findings highlight the importance of self-regulatory functions of the medial cortex and away from effortful inhibition subserved by dorsolateral cortices.

scholarly journals Neural mechanisms of intimate partner aggression

2021 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 108195
Author(s):  
David S. Chester ◽  
Alexandra M. Martelli ◽  
Samuel J. West ◽  
Emily N. Lasko ◽  
Phoebe Brosnan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Partner Aggression ◽  
Intimate Partner Aggression

scholarly journals Cognitive Reframing of Intimate Partner Aggression: Social and Contextual Influences

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (11) ◽  
pp. 2464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wind Goodfriend ◽  
Ximena Arriaga
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Contextual Influences ◽  
Partner Aggression ◽  
Relationship Patterns ◽  
Partner Relationship ◽  
Cognitive Reframing ◽  
Supportive Relationship ◽  
Intimate Partner Aggression ◽  
Individual Partner

Intimate partner aggression violates U.S. culturally-accepted standards regarding how partners should treat each other. Victims must reconcile the dissonance associated with being in what should be a loving and supportive relationship, while being in the same relationship that is personally and deeply harmful. To manage these clashing cognitions, victims consciously and unconsciously adopt perceptions to reframe their partner’s aggression, minimizing and reinterpreting the occurrence or impact of aggressive acts, and justifying remaining in their relationship. The paper examines the multiple and nested influences that shape such perceptions, including individual, partner, relationship, and cultural factors. Each type of influence is discussed by reviewing previous research and including accounts from women who had experienced aggression. Greater awareness of such perceptions may afford greater control in changing harmful relationship patterns.

scholarly journals Longitudinal effects of increases and decreases in intimate partner aggression.

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia F. Hammett ◽  
Benjamin R. Karney ◽  
Thomas N. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Partner Aggression ◽  
Longitudinal Effects ◽  
Intimate Partner Aggression

Physical and Sexual Intimate Partner Aggression Among College Students: Examining the Roles of Cyber Intimate Partner Aggression and Alcohol Use

2020 ◽  
pp. 088626052091259
Author(s):  
Laura E. Watkins ◽  
Rosalita C. Benedicto ◽  
Alexandra Brockdorf ◽  
David DiLillo
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Partner Aggression ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Increase Risk ◽  
Intimate Partner Aggression

Intimate partner aggression (IPA) is a serious and prevalent problem among college students. Two factors that may increase risk for in-person IPA are cyber IPA and alcohol use. This study examines the interaction between three types of cyber IPA (cyber psychological, stalking, and sexual IPA) and alcohol use in predicting in-person physical and sexual IPA perpetration. Participants were 268 undergraduate students, who participated in a mass screening at a large midwestern university. More than half of the sample reported perpetrating cyber IPA. A multivariate logistic regression model was used to examine study hypotheses. The R2 for physical IPA perpetration was .69 and the R2 for sexual IPA perpetration was .46. Cyber stalking IPA and alcohol interacted to predict physical IPA perpetration, such that the relationship between cyber stalking IPA and physical IPA perpetration was stronger among individuals who used more alcohol. Contrary to expectations, cyber IPA and alcohol did not interact to predict sexual IPA. However, consistent with hypotheses, cyber stalking IPA was positively associated with sexual IPA perpetration. The high prevalence of cyber IPA and its association with in-person IPA perpetration suggests that prevention programs targeting cyber IPA on college campuses may be warranted.

Intimate Partner Aggression and Marital Satisfaction: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 088626051774760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia F. Hammett ◽  
Justin A. Lavner ◽  
Benjamin R. Karney ◽  
Thomas N. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Panel Analysis ◽  
Partner Aggression ◽  
Intimate Partner Aggression
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