RT Article
T1 Psychological Intimate Partner Violence, Insecure Attachment, and Parental Psychological Control from Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 37
IS 7/8
A1 Choe, So Young
A2 Lee, Jungeun Olivia
A2 Read, Stephen J.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/188374797X
AB We examine if psychological intimate partner violence (pIPV) is predicted by parental psychological control (PPC) via insecure attachment. Our results analyzing longitudinal data from the Child Development Project show that PPC perceived at age 16 predicts insecure attachment at age 18, which then predicts pIPV at age 24. Moreover, the paths with attachment anxiety are consistently significant while ones with attachment avoidance are not. Further, all the paths are significant regardless of the gender of the adolescents and parents, which indicates that PPC is detrimental regardless of the gender of the adolescents or parents. Lastly, PPC perceived at age 16 does not directly predict pIPV at age 24, which suggests that social learning theory of aggression (Bandura, 1978) may not explain the association from PPC to pIPV. Our results suggest that research and practice would benefit by considering PPC as an antecedent of pIPV via insecure attachment from adolescence to emerging adulthood.
K1 Attachment
K1 Intimate Partner Violence
K1 parental psychological control
DO 10.1177/0886260520957974