Stalking and psychological abuse: common factors and relationship-specific characteristics.
The purpose of this study was to refine and elaborate models of personality and relationship-specific characteristics in the perpetration of stalking and psychological abuse. Three hundred and forty-two college students who had been in intimate relationships completed a series of questionnaires about their most recent breakup and their former relationship. Our hypotheses were supported, with harsh parental discipline, anxious attachment, and need for control of one's partner forming a common cluster in the prediction of stalking and psychological abuse. For psychological abuse, relationship dissatisfaction added to the predictive factors; whereas for stalking, the level of anger-jealousy over the breakup was the major added factor. Degree of anger-jealousy was influenced by being the recipient of a breakup and the level of passion.
Dye
Melanie Livet
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Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Davis
Keith E
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D000328:Adult; D000786:Anger; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007578:Jealousy; D008297:Male; D009770:Obsessive Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D017406:Sexual Harassment / Q000523:psychology*; D013022:South Carolina; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States