Kent State University, Kent, OH 44240, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2012 Mar;27(4):812-23. doi: 10.1177/0886260511423251. Epub 2011 Oct 16.
The assessment of verbal aggression in adolescent and young adult dating relationships has largely relied on self-report methodology. We investigated whether information on verbal aggression derived from an observational assessment would enhance the prediction of romantic relationship satisfaction and dissolution in a sample of young adult dating relationships (N = 113). Observationally assessed verbal aggression was moderately associated with self-reported verbal aggression. Consistent with previous findings, neither self-reported nor observationally assessed verbal aggression was associated with relationship dissolution. Observationally assessed verbal aggression and self-reported verbal aggression each uniquely accounted for a substantial amount of variability in romantic relationship satisfaction. The findings of this study provide additional support for conducting multimethod assessments of verbal aggression and incorporating observational methodology in the study of aggression in young adult dating relationships.
青少年和年轻成人约会关系中的言语攻击评估在很大程度上依赖于自我报告方法。我们研究了从观察评估中获得的关于言语攻击的信息是否会提高对年轻成人约会关系样本中浪漫关系满意度和破裂的预测（N=113）。观察评估的言语攻击与自我报告的言语攻击中度相关。与先前的发现一致，自我报告和观察评估的言语攻击都与关系破裂无关。观察评估的言语攻击和自我报告的言语攻击各自独立地解释了浪漫关系满意度的大量可变性。这项研究的结果为进行言语攻击的多方法评估以及在年轻成人约会关系中的攻击研究中纳入观察方法提供了额外的支持。
