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- The study explores how subtle sexual coercion affects couples' sexual health and focuses on the link between attachment insecurities and communication issues.
- It involves 145 couples and finds that poor communication mediates the connection between attachment insecurities and sexual coercion, with gender playing a moderating role.
- The findings aim to aid practitioners and researchers in recognizing how these psychological factors contribute to subtle sexual coercion within relationships.
Article Abstract
The use of subtle strategies to have sex with an unwilling partner is harmful to a couple's sexual well-being but these strategies remain understudied. This research examined the mediating role of communication patterns in the associations between attachment insecurities and sustained sexual coercion in 145 same- and cross-gender couples, and the moderating role of partners' gender. In addition to actor and partner effects, results revealed significant indirect effects from attachment insecurities to sexual coercion via communication patterns, with moderating effects of gender. Results may help practitioners and researchers understand the ways attachment insecurities and dysfunctional communication patterns can manifest in the experience of subtle forms of sexual coercion within couples.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2021.1944937 | DOI Listing |
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