RT Article
T1 I Ruminate Therefore I Violate: The Tainted Love of Anxiously Attached and Jealous Partners
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 37
IS 9/10
A1 Aracı-İyiaydın, Ayşegül
A2 Toplu-Demirtaş, Ezgi
A2 Akçabozan-Kayabol, Nazlı Büşra
A2 Fincham, Frank D. 1954-
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1883642027
AB Anxiously attached individuals worry about the psychological availability of their partners. Their preoccupation with unmet attachment related needs is likely accompanied by ruminative thoughts, feelings of jealousy, and dating abuse perpetration. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the prevalence of gender differences in perpetrating psychological and cyber dating abuse and to explore a hypothesized serial path from anxious attachment, through rumination, and cognitive jealousy to psychological and cyber dating abuse perpetration. The sample consisted of 562 (404 women) Turkish emerging adults. The majority of the sample perpetrated at least one psychological (88.9%) and cyber (68.4%) abusive behavior over the last six months, with women perpetrating more psychological and cyber abuse. We tested a serial mediational model for each type of dating abuse, which indicated that anxious attachment was related to more rumination (brooding), cognitive jealousy, and in turn, to psychological and cyber dating abuse perpetration. We discuss the implications of our study for research, theory, and practice.
K1 anxious attachment
K1 cyber dating abuse perpetration
K1 emerging adults
K1 Jealousy
K1 psychological dating abuse perpetration
K1 Rumination
DO 10.1177/0886260520967743