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Attachment And Intimate Partner Violence In Predominantly Hispanic Young Adult Couples, Deanna Pollard
Attachment And Intimate Partner Violence In Predominantly Hispanic Young Adult Couples, Deanna Pollard
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Some research suggests that conflicting insecure attachment needs between romantic partners exacerbate the association between insecure attachment dimensions and physical intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration in men and women. However, the current literature examining this association are not without their limitations (i.e., small sample sizes, collapsing both partners' reports together to create their IPV variables, predominantly White samples, and utilizing attachment instruments that do not assess attachment dimensions directly). The present study aimed to address some of the limitations in previous research by examining the association between partners' opposing insecure attachment dimensions and male and female-perpetrated physical IPV in a …