Attachment Style, Early Sexual Intercourse, and Dating Aggression Victimization
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The present study examined relations between attachment style, age at first sexual intercourse, and dating aggression (DA) victimization. In all, 137 heterosexual female undergraduate students 18 to 25 years of age (M = 20.76, SD = 1.87) completed an online questionnaire that included questions regarding sexual history, attachment style (Experiences in Close Relationships Scale), and DA (Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory). Initial bivariate correlations revealed that women reported higher rates of DA victimization if they were more anxiously attached (r = .30, p = .000), had an earlier age at vaginal sexual debut (r = -.19, p = .015), and had an earlier age at oral sexual debut (r = -.15, p = .046); however, when entered into a predictive multivariate model, neither the addition of anxious attachment nor an early age at sexual debut accounted for a significant amount of variance above and beyond control variables. Although we were unable to affirm anxious attachment and an early age at first intercourse as risk factors for DA victimization, posthoc analyses emphasized the need to control for social desirability when gathering information on sensitive topics in clinical and research settings.
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Attachment insecurity predicted no longer IPV victimization after controlling for social desirability.
“Importantly, a study showed that attachment insecurity predicted no longer IPV victimization after controlling for social desirability (Yarkovsky and Timmons Fritz, 2014).”
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- Authors
- Yarkovsky, N., & Timmons Fritz, P. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Windsor (CA)
- University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
- Venue
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2013-10-07
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 279-298
- ISSN
- 0886-2605 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-6518
- OpenAlex
- W2006990132
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 1.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Interpersonal Violence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Scholarship at UWindsor (University of Windsor) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Health › Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Keywords
- attachment styles, attachment anxiety, age at first sexual intercourse, dating aggression, dating violence victimization, sexual initiation, female university students, social desirability bias, intimate partner violence
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aggression, Anxiety, Coitus, Female, Humans, Object Attachment, Risk Factors, Crime Victims, Heterosexuality, Young Adult
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