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Remaining in a situationally aggressive relationship: The role of relationship self‐efficacy
Author(s) -
BAKER LEVI R.,
COBB REBECCA A.,
MCNULTY JAMES K.,
LAMBERT NATHANIEL M.,
FINCHAM FRANK D.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/pere.12145
Subject(s) - situational ethics , psychology , social psychology , domestic violence , structural equation modeling , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , medical emergency , medicine , computer science , machine learning
Relationship self‐efficacy ( RSE ) is the belief that one can resolve relationship conflicts, and it may lead victims of situational violence to remain in their relationships because they expect to minimize subsequent violence. Indeed, a longitudinal study of two samples of college students demonstrated that RSE moderates the effects of victimization on relationship dissolution; intimate partner violence ( IPV ) victimization was positively associated with dissolution among intimates low in RSE but was unassociated with dissolution among intimates high in RSE . Interestingly, although RSE was negatively associated with dissolution among victims, it was associated with experiencing less subsequent IPV in one sample. Ultimately, whether victims' RSE is adaptive may depend on the extent to which any minimization of conflicts eliminates violence.