@article{ref1,
title="A cascade model of sociodevelopmental events leading to men's perpetration of violence against female romantic partners",
journal="Evolutionary psychology",
year="2021",
author="Kaighobadi, Farnaz and Figueredo, Aurelio J. and Shackelford, Todd K. and Bjorklund, David F.",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="e14747049211040751-e14747049211040751",
abstract="Conceptually driven by life history theory, the current study investigated a hypothesized hierarchy of behaviors leading to men's perpetration of violence in intimate relationships. Using a series of hierarchical regressions, we tested a causal cascade model on data provided by 114 men in a committed romantic relationship. The results supported the hypothesized hierarchy of sociodevelopmental events: (1) men's childhood experiences with their parents' parental effort predicted men's life history strategies; (2) men's life history strategies predicted men's behavioral self-regulation; (3) men's self-regulation predicted men's perceptions of partner infidelity risk; (4) perceptions of infidelity risk predicted men's frequency of engagement in nonviolent mate retention behaviors; (5) men's mate retention behaviors predicted men's frequency of partner-directed violence. The overall cascade model explained 36% of variance in men's partner-directed violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1474-7049",
doi="10.1177/14747049211040751",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14747049211040751"
}