Agreement between veteran and partner reports of intimate partner aggression.

Intimate partner aggression and women's work outcomes.

Using conservation of resources theory, we examined the relationship between intimate partner aggression enacted against heterosexual women and 3 types of work-related outcomes for these women: withdrawal while at work (i.e., cognitive distraction, work neglect), withdrawal from work (i.e., partial absenteeism, intentions to quit), and performance. In Study 1, we compared withdrawal both at and...

Daily reports of intimate partner verbal aggression by self and partner: Short-term consequences and implications for measurement.

OBJECTIVE Agreement within couples regarding the occurrence of aggression is surprisingly low. Survey research often collapses across partners' reports to create a pooled estimate of aggression in the relationship. This method ignores possible differences in partners' perceptions of the event, potentially weakening researchers' ability to detect consequences of aggression. The current study exa...

Gainful Activity and Intimate Partner Aggression in Emerging Adulthood.

Although intimate partner aggression crosses social class boundaries, education and income are important predictors. Yet given that emerging adulthood is a transitional period, completed education and employment, as single measures, are not ideal indicators of socioeconomic status for young people. We examined associations between self-reports of gainful activity, defined as enrollment in schoo...

Denial, minimization, partner blaming, and intimate aggression in dating partners.

Although countering denial, minimization, and externalization of blame is a key component of most interventions for individuals who have been abusive in their intimate relationships, these attributions have only seldom been the focus of empirical investigation. Using a sample of 139 male and female university students, this study examined the associations between self-reported minimizing and bl...

Gender and Military Contextual Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Aggression