Anger Experience and Expression Among Male Dating Violence Perpetrators During Anger Arousal

Eckhardt, Christopher I.; Jamison, T. Rene; Watts, Kimberly

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“…Specific changes in anger were also examined by producing an anger summary score with the five adjectives "angry," "hostile," "irritable," "disgusted," and "annoyed." This is consistent with past research examining IPA Eckhardt, Jamison, & Watts, 2002;Maldonado, DiLillo, & Hoffman, 2014). These adjectives have been shown to form a distinguishable anger factor when negative mood adjectives are factor analyzed (e.g., Watson & Clark, 1992).…”

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“…In addition, lab-based studies examining participants' responses during anger provoking scenarios involving intimate partners, find that IPA perpetrators articulate more aggressive verbalization than non-aggressive individuals (Barbour, Eckhardt, Davison, & Kassinove, 1998;Eckhardt, Jamison, & Watts, 2002). In a daily diary study, higher proximal anger was also related to a greater probability of perpetrating IPA among a sample of undergraduate students (Elkins, Moore, McNulty, Kivisto, & Handsel, 2013).…”

Section: Emotion Emotion Regulatory Strategies and Ipamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In these tasks participants are told they are either teaching or playing against another participant, who in fact is a confederate. The true participant is able to control the intensity and duration of shock or white noise given to the confederate, either for making an incorrect response (e.g., on the teacher-learning task) or losing a reaction time trial.These studies compare levels of aggression in the alcohol group to the group that did not In more recent writings on the CN model, instead of focusing on the broad construct of negative emotion, Berkowitz (2012) has highlighted the specific role of anger.Anger is theorized to be related to an approach motivational system, which is unlike other negative emotions such as anxiety and fear that are related to an avoidance motivational system (Carver & Harmon-Jones, 2009 Eckhardt, Jamison, & Watts, 2002). In a daily diary study, higher proximal anger was also related to a greater probability of perpetrating IPA among a sample of undergraduate students (Elkins, Moore, McNulty, Kivisto, & Handsel, 2013).…”

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“…Anger is theorized to be related to an approach motivational system, which is unlike other negative emotions such as anxiety and fear that are related to an avoidance motivational system (Carver & Harmon-Jones, 2009 Eckhardt, Jamison, & Watts, 2002). In a daily diary study, higher proximal anger was also related to a greater probability of perpetrating IPA among a sample of undergraduate students (Elkins, Moore, McNulty, Kivisto, & Handsel, 2013).…”

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The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Lab-Based Partner Aggression

Watkins¹

2014

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Intimate partner aggression (IPA) is a serious national health concern that affects an alarming number of individuals and can lead to substantial psychological and physical suffering. Situational risk factors that arise in the immediate context of IPA reflect statelike influences that trigger aggression. Because these factors are more variable and fluctuate according to the situation, they are potentially promising targets for prevention and intervention efforts (e.g., through cognitive and behavioral interventions). Within this realm, two factors in particular appear to play a prominent role in the etiology of IPA: alcohol intoxication and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. In contrast to prior correlational work, the present study experimentally manipulated alcohol consumption and emotion regulatory strategies to assess their individual and combined effects on IPA, which was measured both observationally and through self-report. It was expected that both alcohol intoxication and anger rumination would increase IPA perpetration, whereas reappraisal would result in decreased IPA perpetration. Further, intoxication and emotion regulation strategies were expected to have interactive effects on IPA perpetration such that rumination would enhance associations between alcohol intoxication and aggression, whereas reappraisal would attenuate the relationship between alcohol and IPA perpetration. Hypotheses for the study were partially supported. Findings show that participants in the alcohol condition generally displayed greater IPA than participants in the placebo condition. Emotion regulation strategy condition was not found to affect IPA. When examining only the effects of alcohol and emotion regulation strategy condition, emotion strategy use did not moderate the relationship between alcohol intoxication and IPA. However, alcohol and emotion regulation strategy conditions were found to interact with trait levels of rumination and reappraisal to predict IPA. The implications of these results, future directions for research, and implications for IPA intervention and prevention strategies are discussed. (Harned, 2002;Straus, 2004).Although most research examining IPA has focused on heterosexual couples, IPA also occurs among heterosexual and same sex couples at similar rates (McClennen, 2005).Further, researchers agree that it is important to systematically examine IPA perpetration among both genders (Holtzworth-Munroe, 2005;Johnson, 2006;Straus, 2006) and among both heterosexual and same-sex couples (Fahmy & Fradella, 2014;McCLennen, 2005). 3University students are particularly at risk for IPA, with past-year prevalence rates ranging from approximately 20% to 50% (Cogan & Fennell, 2007; Forke, Myers, Catallozzi, & Schwartz, 2008;Riggs & O'Leary, 1996;Straus, 2004 Identifying demographic and dispositional risk factors provides invaluable information on which individuals are more likely to be aggressive towards their partners.However, these risk factors do not provide information about the specific circumsta...

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Watkins¹

2014

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“…Findings that those who are high in trait anger are more likely to experience intense anger during verbal conflict (Deffenbacher, 1992) suggest the presence of strong aggressive impulses that may impel individuals to perpetrate IPA. Indeed, trait anger is related to increased IPA among a variety of samples, including college men reporting a history of dating violence (Eckhardt, Jamison, & Watts, 2002), maritally violent men from the community (Barbour, Eckhardt, Davison, & Kassinove, 1998), and women who were arrested for domestic violence (Shorey, Brasfield, Febres, & Stuart, 2011). Recent work using daily diary methods shows a proximal link between anger experiences and IPA for both men and women (Elkins, Moore, McNulty, Kivisto, & Handsel, 2013).…”

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The Interplay of Trait Anger, Childhood Physical Abuse, and Alcohol Consumption in Predicting Intimate Partner Aggression

Maldonado

Watkins

DiLillo

2014

J Interpers Violence

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The current study examined three well-established risk factors for intimate partner aggression (IPA) within Finkel and Eckhardt’s I3 model, including two impellance factors—trait anger and childhood physical abuse history—and the disinhibiting factor of alcohol consumption. Participants were 236 male and female college students in a committed heterosexual dating relationship who completed a battery of self-report measures assessing childhood physical abuse, trait anger, alcohol consumption, and IPA perpetration. Results revealed a significant three-way interaction showing that as the disinhibition factor alcohol consumption increased, the interaction of the two impelling factors, trait anger and childhood physical abuse, became increasingly more positive. Individuals who had high levels of childhood physical abuse and alcohol consumption were at greater risk of IPA perpetration when trait anger was high. Consistent with the I3 model, these findings suggest that trait anger and a history of childhood physical abuse may increase tendencies to aggress against one’s partner, whereas alcohol consumption may reduce individuals’ abilities to manage these aggressive tendencies. The importance of interplay among these risk factors in elevating IPA risk is discussed, as are the implications for clinicians working with male and female IPA perpetrators.

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The Influence of Just‐World Beliefs on Driving Anger and Aggressive Driving Intentions

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Murray

2012

Aggressive Behavior

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Decades of research demonstrate that the extent to which one believes the world is just can have important interpersonal consequences. Unfortunately, most of the commonly studied consequences are negative in nature. Guided by previous research demonstrating the buffering effect of just-world beliefs and anger, the present research explores how belief in a just world (BJW) may mitigate anger in the domain of driving anger and examines the limiting conditions of this effect. Study 1 demonstrated the expected negative relation between common measures of BJW and anger expression in a driving context. Study 2 found that the buffering effects of just-world beliefs and driver aggression were greater when BJW was violated (vs. not). Study 3 replicated the effects on aggression and anger and established a mediational role of anger on the buffering effects of just-world beliefs on thoughts and driver aggression.

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Anger Experience and Expression Among Male Dating Violence Perpetrators During Anger Arousal

Cited by 58 publications

References 27 publications

The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Lab-Based Partner Aggression

The Effects of Alcohol Intoxication and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Lab-Based Partner Aggression

The Interplay of Trait Anger, Childhood Physical Abuse, and Alcohol Consumption in Predicting Intimate Partner Aggression

The Influence of Just‐World Beliefs on Driving Anger and Aggressive Driving Intentions

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