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Attachment Style, Early Sexual Intercourse, And Dating Aggression Victimization, Nicole Yarkovsky, Patti A. Timmons Fritz
Attachment Style, Early Sexual Intercourse, And Dating Aggression Victimization, Nicole Yarkovsky, Patti A. Timmons Fritz
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The present study examined relations between attachment style, age at first sexual intercourse, and dating aggression (DA) victimization. In all, 137 heterosexual female undergraduate students 18 to 25 years of age (M = 20.76, SD = 1.87) completed an online questionnaire that included questions regarding sexual history, attachment style (Experiences in Close Relationships Scale), and DA (Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory). Initial bivariate correlations revealed that women reported higher rates of DA victimization if they were more anxiously attached (r = .30, p = .000), had an earlier age at vaginal sexual debut (r = −.19, …