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  • Further evidence for a relationship between attachment insecurity and coercive sexual behavior in nonoffenders.

    Author(s)
    Smallbone, SW
    Dadds, MR
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Smallbone, Stephen W.
    Year published
    2001
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    Abstract
    To replicate and extend the findings of a previous study examining attachment insecurity and coercive sexual behavior in nonoffenders, a new cohort of 119 male undergraduate students completed self-report measures of childhood maternal and paternal attachment, adult attachment, antisociality, aggression, and coercive sexual behavior. Consistent with earlier findings, insecure childhood attachment was significantly associated with coercive sexual behavior, accounting for an additional (although nonsignificant) proportion of variance after anti-sociality and aggression were statistically controlled. In contrast with earlier ...
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    To replicate and extend the findings of a previous study examining attachment insecurity and coercive sexual behavior in nonoffenders, a new cohort of 119 male undergraduate students completed self-report measures of childhood maternal and paternal attachment, adult attachment, antisociality, aggression, and coercive sexual behavior. Consistent with earlier findings, insecure childhood attachment was significantly associated with coercive sexual behavior, accounting for an additional (although nonsignificant) proportion of variance after anti-sociality and aggression were statistically controlled. In contrast with earlier findings, maternal avoidant attachment rather than paternal avoidant attachment emerged as an important predictor of coercive sexual behavior. Examination of more specific aspects of childhood attachment revealed that insecure patterns of both maternal and paternal attachment were associated with coercive sexual behavior independently of aggression and antisociality. Adult attachment avoidance was found to be associated with coercive sexual behavior, and adult attachment anxiety was found to be associated with antisociality and aggression.
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    Journal Title
    Journal of Interpersonal Violence
    Volume
    16
    Issue
    1
    Publisher URI
    http://jiv.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/16/1/22
    Copyright Statement
    © 2001 Sage Publications. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. First published in Journal of Interpersonal Violence. This journal is available online: http://jiv.sagepub.com/content/vol16/issue1/
    Subject
    Criminology
    Social work
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/3510
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