Risk Factors of Female-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence among Hispanic Young Adults: Attachment Style, Emotional Dysregulation, and Negative Childhood Experiences

Joahana Segundo (), Arthur L. Cantos, Gabriela Ontiveros and K. Daniel O’Leary
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Joahana Segundo: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USA
Arthur L. Cantos: Department of Psychological Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA
Gabriela Ontiveros: Department of Psychological Science, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX 78539, USA
K. Daniel O’Leary: Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 21, 1-18

Abstract: This paper examined whether risk factors commonly associated with intimate partner violence (IPV) are associated with female-perpetrated physical IPV and female physical IPV victimization among young Hispanic women. It also examined how emotion dysregulation, impulsivity, and attachment style exacerbated these relationships. Furthermore, it investigates how these associations differ by the type of self-reported physical violence against their romantic partner. Based on the participants′ self-reported physical violence, they were classified into one of four groups: nonviolent, victim-only, perpetrator-only, and bidirectionally violent. Bidirectional violence was by far the most common form of violence reported. Utilizing self-report data from 360 young Hispanic women, we used binary logistic regression to examine potential predictors of physical IPV perpetration and victimization for each group. Results demonstrated that women in the bidirectionally violent group reported the highest levels of perpetration and victimization. Parental violence victimization, witnessing interparental violence, insecure attachment styles, and emotional dysregulation predicted physical IPV perpetration and victimization. These findings emphasize the need for effective interventions that include both members of the dyad and acknowledge the impact of women′s attachment style, emotion dysregulation, and adverse childhood experiences on female-perpetrated IPV and female IPV victimization.

Keywords: intimate partner violence; emotion dysregulation; attachment style; adverse childhood experiences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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