Karakurt Günnur, Silver Kristin E
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7136, USA.
Violence Vict. 2013;28(5):804-21. doi: 10.1891/0886-6708.vv-d-12-00041.
This study aimed to investigate the moderating roles of gender and age on emotional abuse within intimate relationships. This study included 250 participants with an average age of 27 years. Participants completed the Emotional Abuse Questionnaire (EAQ; Jacobson & Gottman, 1998), which 4 subscales are isolation, degradation, sexual abuse, and property damage. Multigroup analysis with 2 groups, female (n = 141) and male (n = 109), was used to test the moderation effect. Younger men reported experiencing higher levels of emotional abuse, which declined with age. Older females reported experiencing less emotional abuse than older males. Overall, emotional abuse was more common in younger participants. Younger women experienced higher rates of isolation, and women's overall experience of property damage was higher than that of men and increased with age. Results are interpreted through the social exchange and conflict frameworks.
本研究旨在探讨性别和年龄在亲密关系中情感虐待方面的调节作用。本研究纳入了250名平均年龄为27岁的参与者。参与者完成了情感虐待问卷（EAQ；雅各布森和戈特曼，1998年），该问卷有4个分量表，分别是孤立、贬低、性虐待和财产破坏。采用两组多组分析，即女性组（n = 141）和男性组（n = 109），来检验调节效应。较年轻的男性报告称经历的情感虐待水平较高，且随着年龄增长而下降。年长女性报告称经历的情感虐待比年长男性少。总体而言，情感虐待在较年轻的参与者中更为常见。较年轻的女性经历孤立的比率更高，并且女性在财产破坏方面的总体经历高于男性，且随年龄增长而增加。研究结果通过社会交换和冲突框架进行解读。
