PSYC 362 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Relational Aggression, Domestic Violence, Psychopathology

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 362
• Professor: Rebecca Cobb

Document Summary

Different perspectives on aggression different results: family sociology perspective: equal rates of aggression, or more by women, advocacy perspective: men almost always perpetrators, women victims, sampling aggression differently. Family sociologist: not studying most aggressive couples in large numbers, used national surveys. Extreme acts rarer, less likely to be reported. Advocacy: national crime surveys, battered women under sample less severe acts. Situational couple violence: exchange escalates, less severe acts more common, women and men equal, control specific dispute, reactive. Intimate terrorism: almost always man, aggression by one partner to dominate partner, proactive, batterers , more about individual psychopathology of perpetrator, than relationship dynamics. Conflict tactics scales (cts: measures what happens when partners disagree over past year (aggression, negotiation strategies, psyc aggression, physical assault, sexual coercion, extent of injuries. Violent resistance: rarer fighting back, may even kill abuser- rare: may be seen as intimate terrorism, but doesn"t recognize defensive nature.