CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 98Attachment and Relationship DynamicsIntimate Partner and Family ViolenceForgiveness and Related Behaviors

A dyadic approach to the study of romantic attachment, dyadic empathy, and psychological partner aggression

Péloquin, Katherine, Lafontaine, Marie-France, Brassard, Audrey·2011·Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
DOI 10.1177/0265407510397988
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

This study examined the intrapersonal, dyadic, and mediational relationships underlying romantic attachment (Experiences in Close Relationships), dyadic empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index for Couples), and psychological partner aggression (Revised Conflict Tactics Scales) in 193 community-based couples. In women, attachment insecurity predicted lower dyadic empathy and greater psychological aggression. In men, attachment insecurity predicted lower perspective taking, higher empathic concern, and greater psychological aggression. Partner effects were found for men, with their attachment predicting their female partner’s dyadic empathy and psychological aggression. In women, low perspective taking mediated the relationship between: (1) their anxiety over abandonment and their psychological aggression; and (2) their avoidance of intimacy and their psychological aggression. Findings are consistent with the attachment theory and clinical implications are discussed.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1177/0265407510397988

Cites

109 of 109 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • Péloquin et al. (2011) found that the association between avoidant attachment and psychological IPV was significant only among females, whereas two other studies indicated significant correlations in both genders.

    “In relation to the role played by gender in such relationship, Péloquin et al. (2011) found that this association was significant only among females whereas two other studies indicated significant correlations in both gender (Seiffge-Krenke and Burk, 2015; Goncy and van Dulmen, 2016; Sommer et al., 2017).”

    From Exploring Relationships: A Systematic Review on Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment (2018) · cites this paper as Péloquin et al., 2011

  • Some studies conducted on couples reported association between psychological IPV and anxious attachment among victims, while two others failed to replicate such results.

    “Finally, whereas some studies conducted on couples reported association between psychological IPV and anxious attachment among victims (Péloquin et al., 2011; Seiffge-Krenke and Burk, 2015; Goncy and van Dulmen, 2016; Sommer et al., 2017), two others studies failed to replicate such results (Oka et al., 2014; Tougas et al., 2016).”

    From Exploring Relationships: A Systematic Review on Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment (2018) · cites this paper as Péloquin et al., 2011

  • Concerning psychological IPV and attachment in couples, some studies claim that high levels of attachment anxiety in one member of the couple foster IPV perpetration by the other.

    “Concerning the relationship between psychological IPV and attachment in couples, some studies claim that high levels of attachment anxiety in one of the members of the couple foster IPV perpetration by the other (Péloquin et al., 2011; Goncy and van Dulmen, 2016), while other studies assert that high levels of both anxiety and avoidance by one of the partners are positively related to”

    From Exploring Relationships: A Systematic Review on Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment (2018) · cites this paper as Péloquin et al., 2011

  • Some authors found an inverse pattern of results with associations between insecure attachment and IPV victimization being significant only among women.

    “some authors found an inverse pattern of results with associations between insecure attachment and IPV victimization being significant only among women (Péloquin et al., 2011; Hellemans et al., 2015).”

    From Exploring Relationships: A Systematic Review on Intimate Partner Violence and Attachment (2018) · cites this paper as Péloquin et al., 2011

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

2 of the 111 references couldn’t be matched to a known paper.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Péloquin, K., Lafontaine, M.-F., & Brassard, A.
Affiliations
  • University of Ottawa (CA)
  • Université de Sherbrooke (CA)
Corresponding author
Péloquin, Katherine
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2011-03-14
Volume
28
Issue
7
Pages
915-942
ISSN
  • 0265-4075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-3608
DOI
10.1177/0265407510397988
OpenAlex
W2021770585
Cited by
97
References
111
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 11 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI
7.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Forgiveness and Related Behaviors
Keywords
romantic attachment, insecure attachment, couples, perspective taking, empathic concern, abandonment anxiety, intimacy avoidance, partner effects, mediation, gender differences

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review