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. 2024 Oct;30(12-13):3234-3250.
doi: 10.1177/10778012231174348. Epub 2023 May 21.

Male Sexual Dysfunction and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence

Terrence D Hill  1 , Ginny Garcia-Alexander  2 , Katelyn Sileo  3 , Chantal Fahmy  4 , Alexander Testa  5 , Rebecca Luttinen  6 , Ryan Schroeder  7
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Male Sexual Dysfunction and the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence

Terrence D Hill et al. Violence Against Women. 2024 Oct.

Abstract

We contribute to our understanding of the social epidemiology of intimate partner violence (IPV) by developing a mediation model that frames IPV as an outcome of male sexual dysfunction (performance anxiety and erectile dysfunction) and the mechanisms of masculine discrepancy stress (the perceived failure to conform to internalized normative expectations of masculinity) and anger. Our mediation analyses of recently collected data from the 2021 Crime, Health, and Politics Survey (CHAPS), a national probability sample of 792 men, confirmed that sexual dysfunction was indirectly associated with the perpetration of any IPV, physical IPV, and sexual IPV through the compound path of masculine discrepancy stress and anger.

Keywords: anger; erectile dysfunction; intimate partner violence; masculinity; sexual dysfunction.

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Conflict of interest statement

Declaration of Conflicting InterestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Theoretical Model Linking Male Sexual Dysfunction and Intimate Partner Violence.
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Empirical Model Linking Male Sexual Dysfunction and Intimate Partner Violence.
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