SynthesisClinical psychology review2015
Anger, hostility, internalizing negative emotions, and intimate partner violence perpetration: A meta-analytic review.
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71 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Anger and emotion regulation strategies: a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- A Meta-analysis of Cognitive Functioning in Intimate Partner Violence Perpetrators.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Interactive Effects of Anger and Alcohol Intoxication on Men's Laboratory-Based Sexual Aggression Propensity Following a Masculinity Threat.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Trial
- Daily Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Adolescent Boys in Soweto, South Africa: A Mixed-Methods Study.Violence against women · 2026Article
- Internalized stigma, negative affect, and intimate partner violence perpetration among sexual minority couples.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Chronicity of depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence experiences over time among sexual minority men: Substance use as a pathway.Psychology of violence · 2026Article
- Love Is Not Blind: It May Be Indifferent to Partners' Flaws, Unless It Involves Cheating or Aggression.Archives of sexual behavior · 2026Article
- Triggering anger using a virtual reality social scene.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Beyond Good or Bad: The Four Evaluative Quadrants of Relationships.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026Article
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Aggression: The Role of Emotion Regulation.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
- Structured psychiatric care and psychosocial support during placebo participation: association with violent and domestic-violence offending in the ReINVEST trial.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Intimate partner violence and eating disorders among married women: the mediating role of emotion dysregulation.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
- The role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies on posttraumatic stress symptoms and alcohol use problems among individuals experiencing intimate partner violence.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- The Nature of Explicit and Implicit Firearm Threat by Intimate Partners Across the Life Course among Women Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence.Psychology of violence · 2025Article
- The 'twin pandemics'? modelling and predicting the trajectories of IPV perpetration during the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia.The British journal of social psychology · 2025Article
- The mediation role of low social-connectedness in association of internet gaming disorder and anger among adolescents: a multi-centre, large-sample and cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Causal and common risk pathways linking childhood maltreatment to later intimate partner violence victimization.Molecular psychiatry · 2025Article
- Is Our Attachment Hurting Us? Unraveling the Associations Between Partners' Attachment Pairings, Negative Emotions During Conflict, and Intimate Partner Violence.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2025Observational
- An Integrative Model of Alcohol-Facilitated Intimate Partner Aggression Perpetration in Sexual and Gender Diverse Couples.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- Contexts and Motives of Intimate Partner Violence among Sexual and Gender Minority Young Adults Assigned Female at Birth.Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity · 2025Article
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Abstract
Prior reviews have identified elevated trait anger as a risk factor for intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Given that 10 years have passed since the last comprehensive review of this literature, we provide an updated meta-analytic review examining associations among anger, hostility, internalizing negative emotions, and IPV for male and female perpetrators. One hundred and five effect sizes from 64 independent samples (61 studies) were included for analysis. IPV perpetration was moderately associated with the constructs of anger, hostility, and internalizing negative emotions. This association appeared stronger for those who perpetrated moderate to severe IPV compared to those who perpetrated low to moderate IPV, and did not vary across perpetrator sex, measurement method, relationship type, or perpetrator population. Implications and limitations of findings were reviewed in the context of theoretical models of IPV, and future directions for empirical and clinical endeavors were proposed.
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