Grigorian Hannah L, Brem Meagan J, Garner Alisa, Florimbio Autumn Rae, Wolford-Clevenger Caitlin, Stuart Gregory L
University of Tennessee- Knoxville.
Psychol Violence. 2020;10(1):91-99. doi: 10.1037/vio0000237. Epub 2019 Apr 8.
Alcohol use/problems and emotion dysregulation are associated with increased intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration. Additionally, alcohol use is an overt coping mechanism for dysregulated emotion. While past research has examined alcohol use/problems as a mediator between emotion dysregulation and IPV, research is limited within clinical samples. The current study sought to fill this gap by examining a theoretical model by which emotion dysregulation and alcohol use/problems influence IPV perpetration in a sample of men arrested for domestic violence. Consistent with prior research, it was hypothesized that alcohol use/problems would mediate the relationship between emotion dysregulation and psychological aggression. Additionally, we hypothesized that emotion dysregulation would positively associate with increased alcohol use/problems, which would relate to increased physical assault perpetration through psychological aggression perpetration.
Using a cross-sectional sample of 391 men arrested for domestic violence and court-referred to Batterer Intervention Programs (BIP), the present study used structural equation modeling to examine proposed pathways from emotion dysregulation to IPV perpetration directly and indirectly through alcohol use/problems.
Alcohol use/problems explained the relation between emotion dysregulation and psychological aggression perpetration. In addition, emotion dysregulation related to psychological aggression which explained the relation between alcohol use/problems and physical assault perpetration.
These findings underline the importance of assessing and addressing emotion dysregulation and alcohol use/problems as risk factors for IPV in existing BIP as well as within theoretical models.
饮酒/问题与情绪调节障碍与亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）犯罪增加有关。此外，饮酒是情绪调节障碍的一种明显应对机制。虽然过去的研究将饮酒/问题视为情绪调节障碍与IPV之间的中介，但临床样本中的研究有限。本研究试图通过检验一个理论模型来填补这一空白，该模型探讨情绪调节障碍和饮酒/问题如何影响因家庭暴力被捕的男性样本中的IPV犯罪。与先前的研究一致，假设饮酒/问题将介导情绪调节障碍与心理攻击之间的关系。此外，我们假设情绪调节障碍与饮酒/问题增加呈正相关，而饮酒/问题增加又会通过心理攻击犯罪导致身体攻击犯罪增加。
本研究采用横断面样本，选取391名因家庭暴力被捕并被转介至施暴者干预项目（BIP）的男性，使用结构方程模型来检验从情绪调节障碍直接或间接通过饮酒/问题到IPV犯罪的假设路径。
饮酒/问题解释了情绪调节障碍与心理攻击犯罪之间的关系。此外，情绪调节障碍与心理攻击有关，而心理攻击又解释了饮酒/问题与身体攻击犯罪之间的关系。
这些发现强调了在现有BIP以及理论模型中，将情绪调节障碍和饮酒/问题作为IPV风险因素进行评估和处理的重要性。
