The Role of Attachment, Insecurity, and Stress in Partner Maltreatment: A Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Negative, destructive, and abusive behaviors in romantic relationships can vary from explicit kinds of abuse and aggression to more subtle and seemingly innocuous slights against or ways of treating a partner. However, regardless of the severity or explicit nature, these behaviors all, to one extent or another, reflect acts of invalidation, disrespect, aggression, or neglect toward a partner, and could be considered maltreatment of a partner. The current paper proposes the term partner maltreatment as a broad overarching concept, which was used to facilitate a meta-analytic synthesis of the literature to examine the associations between attachment insecurity (i.e., attachment anxiety, attachment avoidance) and perpetration of partner maltreatment. Additionally, this paper situated p

SUBMITTER: Knox L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10666483 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature