%0 Journal Article %T A dyadic analysis of the associations between cumulative childhood trauma and psychological intimate partner violence: the mediating roles of negative urgency and communication patterns %J Journal of marital and family therapy %D 2019 %A Dugal, Caroline %A Belanger, Claude %A Brassard, Audrey %A Godbout, Natacha %V ePub %N ePub %P ePub-ePub %X Prior research has suggested associations between cumulative childhood trauma (CCT), negative urgency, communication patterns, and psychological intimate partner violence (P-IPV), but no study has examined these links using a dyadic approach. This study examined the sequential mediation of negative urgency and communication patterns in the link uniting CCT and P-IPV in a sample of 501 heterosexual couples.

RESULTS suggest that more CCT events are associated with higher levels of negative urgency, which in turn are associated with a higher tendency to endorse a demand/withdraw and/or demand/demand communication pattern, and to perpetrate P-IPV.

FINDINGS support the need to assess CCT, emotional self-control, dyadic and communication patterns, and P-IPV perpetration and victimization in couples seeking help in order to select interventions that will take into account the individual and dyadic nature of P-IPV.

© 2019 American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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%G en %I John Wiley and Sons %@ 0194-472X %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12414