Department of Social Psychology, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain.
Aggress Behav. 2024 Nov;50(6):e70006. doi: 10.1002/ab.70006.
This study explores how anxious attachment moderates the relationship between hostile sexism and online violence in adolescent and young adults' partners. Two hundred thirty heterosexual couples (total n = 460) participated in a dyadic design study. Both partners answered a questionnaire about online violence, hostile sexism, and anxious attachment. Results show that both members' hostile sexism positively correlates with the perpetration and victimization of online violence in boys and girls, but not in all the dimensions. However, actor-hostile sexism has a greater effect on both perpetration and victimization for both members than partner-hostile sexism, except for control perpetration and victimization of girls. Results also show that the actor-anxious attachment positively moderated the relationship between their hostile sexism and perpetration and victimization for both members, only when it was higher than average, and negatively when it was lower. In girls, when the anxious attachment is high, the relationship between the boys' hostile sexism and the girls' direct aggression perpetration becomes weaker. The opposite occurs between the boys' hostile sexism and boys' direct aggression perpetrated when their girlfriends' anxious attachment increases. In sum, anxious attachment and hostile actor and partner sexism play an important role in online violence in adolescent couples. Therefore, the protective effect of low levels of anxious attachment should be studied among other psychosocial factors and online violence.
本研究探讨了焦虑型依恋如何调节青少年和年轻成年人伴侣中敌意性别歧视与网络暴力之间的关系。230 对异性恋伴侣（总计 n=460）参与了一项对偶设计研究。双方都回答了一份关于网络暴力、敌意性别歧视和焦虑依恋的问卷。结果表明，双方的敌意性别歧视与男孩和女孩的网络暴力侵害和受害都呈正相关，但并非所有维度都是如此。然而，与伴侣的敌意性别歧视相比，演员的敌意性别歧视对双方的侵害和受害都有更大的影响，除了女孩的控制侵害和受害。结果还表明，当演员的焦虑依恋高于平均水平时，焦虑依恋正向调节他们的敌意性别歧视与双方成员的侵害和受害之间的关系，而当焦虑依恋较低时，则呈负向调节。在女孩中，当焦虑依恋较高时，男孩的敌意性别歧视与女孩的直接攻击侵害之间的关系变得较弱。当男孩的焦虑依恋增加时，男孩的敌意性别歧视与男孩的直接攻击侵害之间的关系就会出现相反的情况。总之，焦虑依恋和敌意演员及伴侣性别歧视在青少年伴侣的网络暴力中起着重要作用。因此，应该在其他社会心理因素和网络暴力中研究低水平焦虑依恋的保护作用。
