When Dominance Drives: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Mood Regulation, Trait Anger, and Attachment in Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion

Poster Session VIII

Keyword: Sexual Behavior

Abstract: The current study hypothesized that trait anger, negative mood regulation, and anxious adult attachment would have a moderating effect between dominance and sexual coercion within a sample of romantic partners experiencing intimate partner violence. The study found that trait anger (STAXI-2) significantly moderates the association between dominance and sexual coercion.

• Kela Barnes (Presenting Author)
• Joseph Boudreaux (Author)
• Julia Babcock (Author)