Citation

Gabbay N, Lafontaine MF. J. Interpers. Violence 2017; ePub(ePub): 886260517716940.

Affiliation

University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0886260517716940

PMID

29294831

Abstract

This study tested a serial mediation model examining how dyadic trust and sexual intimacy mediate the relationship between insecure romantic attachment and perpetrated sexual violence occurring between same sex intimate partners (sexual SSIPV). A community sample of adults ( N = 310; 203 women, 107 men) involved in a committed (6 months or longer) same sex romantic relationship completed an encrypted online questionnaire package which included psychometric measures designed to assess the aforementioned variables. Controlling for gender effects, analyses conducted using bootstrapping procedures supported full mediation pathways for both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance. That is, attachment anxiety and avoidance were both directly associated to the perpetration of sexual SSIPV, and these relationships were both fully mediated by dyadic trust and sexual intimacy, in that respective order.

Language: en

Keywords

SSIPV; attachment; intimacy; sexual violence; trust