A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners

Conceptually driven by life history theory, the current study investigated a hypothesized hierarchy of behaviors leading to men's perpetration of violence in intimate relationships. Using a series of hierarchical regressions, we tested a causal cascade model on data provided by 114 men in a com...

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Main Authors:	Farnaz Kaighobadi, Aurelio J. Figueredo, Todd K. Shackelford, David F. Bjorklund
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE Publishing 2021-10-01
Series:	Evolutionary Psychology
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049211040751

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spelling	doaj-634d3019fabf4df9aeb87e54beeb8cd12021-10-07T21:34:19ZengSAGE PublishingEvolutionary Psychology1474-70492021-10-011910.1177/14747049211040751A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic PartnersFarnaz Kaighobadi0Aurelio J. Figueredo1Todd K. Shackelford2David F. Bjorklund3 Department of Social Sciences, , City University New York, Bronx, NY, USA Department of Psychology, , Tucson, AZ, USA Department of Psychology, , Rochester, MI, USA Department of Psychology, , Boca Raton, FL, USAConceptually driven by life history theory, the current study investigated a hypothesized hierarchy of behaviors leading to men's perpetration of violence in intimate relationships. Using a series of hierarchical regressions, we tested a causal cascade model on data provided by 114 men in a committed romantic relationship. The results supported the hypothesized hierarchy of sociodevelopmental events: (1) men's childhood experiences with their parents’ parental effort predicted men's life history strategies; (2) men's life history strategies predicted men's behavioral self-regulation; (3) men's self-regulation predicted men's perceptions of partner infidelity risk; (4) perceptions of infidelity risk predicted men's frequency of engagement in nonviolent mate retention behaviors; (5) men's mate retention behaviors predicted men's frequency of partner-directed violence. The overall cascade model explained 36% of variance in men's partner-directed violence.https://doi.org/10.1177/14747049211040751
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author	Farnaz Kaighobadi Aurelio J. Figueredo Todd K. Shackelford David F. Bjorklund
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title	A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners
title_short	A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners
title_full	A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners
title_fullStr	A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners
title_full_unstemmed	A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners
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series	Evolutionary Psychology
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publishDate	2021-10-01
description	Conceptually driven by life history theory, the current study investigated a hypothesized hierarchy of behaviors leading to men's perpetration of violence in intimate relationships. Using a series of hierarchical regressions, we tested a causal cascade model on data provided by 114 men in a committed romantic relationship. The results supported the hypothesized hierarchy of sociodevelopmental events: (1) men's childhood experiences with their parents’ parental effort predicted men's life history strategies; (2) men's life history strategies predicted men's behavioral self-regulation; (3) men's self-regulation predicted men's perceptions of partner infidelity risk; (4) perceptions of infidelity risk predicted men's frequency of engagement in nonviolent mate retention behaviors; (5) men's mate retention behaviors predicted men's frequency of partner-directed violence. The overall cascade model explained 36% of variance in men's partner-directed violence.
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A Cascade Model of Sociodevelopmental Events Leading to Men's Perpetration of Violence Against Female Romantic Partners

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