The Impact of Anger on the Intimate Partner Violence Decision-Making Process

Nedegaard, Randall; Sbrocco, Tracy

doi:10.1007/s10896-014-9618-1

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“…During the appointment, participants were administered several well-established, widely validated scales to include the Modified Conflict Tactics Scale (MCTS), Family Assessment Device (FAD-III), Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), State Trait Anger Scale (STAS), Michigan Alcohol Screening Test (MAST), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Eysenck Impulsivity Questionnaire (I.7; Eysenck & Eysenck, 1978). Participants were then administered the decision-making task (DMT) following the procedures delineated below (see Nedegaard & Sbrocco, 2014, for further details).…”

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“…The Social Information Processing (SIP) model (McFall, 1982(McFall, , 1989 has been applied to better understand these precipitants and motivations of IPV perpetration (e.g., Holtzworth-Munroe & Hutchinson, 1993;Nedegaard & Sbrocco, 2014). The SIP model has been frequently used to understand aggressive behavior both among children and adults, supporting the reactive and/or proactive construct (Beldin, 2008).…”

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Impulsivity and Decision-Making among Men Engaging in Mild Intimate Partner Violence

Nedegaard¹,

Sbrocco²,

Jayasundara³

2019

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Research has been conducted supporting a Social Information Processing (McFall, 1982) conceptualization of intimate partner violence perpetration (Holtzworth-Munroe & Hutchinson, 1993;Nedegaard & Sbrocco, 2014). However, it has also been suggested that several transitory factors can influence the individual steps of this model (Crick & Dodge, 1994;McFall, 1989; Lemerise & Aresenio, 2000). One possible transitory factor is impulsivity. This study was designed to evaluate the effect of impulsivity on the perceived ability and utility of abusive behaviors among abusive men. Thirty-two abusive men, thirty-two maritally distressed, nonabusive men, and thirty-two maritally satisfied, nonabusive men were asked to complete a decision-making questionnaire where the subjective expected utilities (SEUs) and perceived ability ratings for specific behaviors were calculated using Multi-Attribute Utility Theory (MAUT). One-way ANOVAs revealed low impulsive abusers rated the SEUs of abusive behaviors significantly higher than any other group. Interestingly, non-impulsive abusers also rated their perceived ability to carry out healthy behaviors lower than all other groups. These findings suggest that there may continue to be value in conceptualizing abusive behavior within an impulsive/reactive and proactive/instrumental context. These findings suggest that abusive men who are low -impulsive may be at greater risk of choosing abusive behaviors in marital conflict situations.

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