APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
When Dominance Drives: Exploring the Moderating Roles of Mood Regulation, Trait Anger, and Attachment in Intimate Partner Sexual Coercion
- Kela Barnes
University of Houston - Joseph Boudreaux
University of Houston - Julia Babcock
University of Houston
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.
Sexual Behavior
