@article{ref1,
title="Self-regulatory failure and intimate partner violence perpetration",
journal="Journal of personality and social psychology",
year="2009",
author="Foshee, Vangie A. and Oaten, Megan and Slotter, Erica B. and Dewall, C. Nathan and Finkel, Eli J.",
volume="97",
number="3",
pages="483-499",
abstract="Five studies tested the hypothesis that self-regulatory failure is an important predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Study 1 participants were far more likely to experience a violent impulse during conflictual interaction with their romantic partner than they were to enact a violent behavior, suggesting that self-regulatory processes help individuals refrain from perpetrating IPV when they experience a violent impulse. Study 2 participants high in dispositional self-control were less likely to perpetrate IPV, in both cross-sectional and residualized-lagged analyses, than were participants low in dispositional self-control. Study 3 participants verbalized more IPV-related cognitions if they responded immediately to partner provocations than if they responded after a 10-s delay. Study 4 participants whose self-regulatory resources were experimentally depleted were more violent in response to partner provocation (but not when unprovoked) than were nondepleted participants. Finally, Study 5 participants whose self-regulatory resources were experimentally bolstered via a 2-week training regimen exhibited less violent inclinations than did participants whose self-regulatory resources had not been bolstered. These findings hint at the power of incorporating self-regulation dynamics into predictive models of IPV perpetration. <p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3514",
doi="10.1037/a0015433",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0015433"
}