Abuse Links
CTS
(Conflict Tactics Scale)
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I. Catharsis vs. social learning hypothesis A. Early Straus study: cross sectional design (lecture) B. New longitudinal
data (Murphy and O'Leary, JCCP, 1989)
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393 engaged couples: assessed 1 month before, 6,18, 30 months post Select only those who were not physically abusive pre-marriage 83% participated in first 3 assessment phases 69% participated in all four assessment phases
Psychological abuse: CTS items and their own from another (assertiveness study)
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II. Continuity of Physical Aggression
(O'Leary, Malone, & Tyree, 1994 JCCP)A. Purpose:
What factors, both pre-relationship and within relationship, predict marital aggression 30 months after marriage?
B. Design View Design (Fig. 1)Two classes of predictor variables :
C. Dependent Variable(1) Pre-relationship Predictor variables:
Parental violence (parents)
Parents hit child
Hits peers/sibs
Personality:
Impulsively, defensiveness, aggression(2) Relationship Variables
Locke-Wallace MS
Nonphysical (psychological) marital aggressionCurrent reports of abuse
CTS (Conflict Tactics Scale)D. Subjects
E. Results: (View Results Figs. 2 and 3)
393 self-selected couples one month prior to their first marriage
272 remained at 30 months (end of study)1. Best single predictor of later physical aggression (PA) was
prior PA (r's = .79 and .71 for males and females, respectively)2. Variables better predicted wives' aggression toward husbands than predicted husbands' aggression toward wives
3. For both H and W PSYCHOLOGICAL aggression was a predictor of PA at 30 months (High psychological aggression high PA)
5. Gender differences
7. Women with impulsive personality characteristics:
Marital unhappiness directly
affects their being PA
(i.e., does not first go through
their own increased
psychological aggressiveness)
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