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

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.