“…This is supported by crime statistics in the United Kingdom indicating that 8.5% of women compared to 4.5% of men report having experienced some form of IPV within a period of a year, equivalent to 1.4 million and 700,000 victims, respectively (Office for National Statistics, 2015). Consequently, research has been dedicated to understanding this gender asymmetry, focusing largely on the historically and socially constructed influence of patriarchy in allowing men to control and dominate their female partners (Fisher, 2013;Sugarman & Frankel, 1996;Walsh, Spangaro, & Soldatic, 2015). Indeed, statistics gathered from clinical samples (e.g., men in prisons, women in shelters) indicate that most victims of IPV are women (Johnson 1995(Johnson , 2006Lövestad, Löve, Vaez, & Krantz, 2017).…”