Conceptually driven by life history theory, the current study investigated a hypothesized hierarchy of behaviors leading to men's perpetration of violence in intimate relationships. Using a series of hierarchical regressions, we tested a causal cascade model on data provided by 114 men in a committed romantic relationship. The results supported the hypothesized hierarchy of sociodevelopmental events: (1) men's childhood experiences with their parents' parental effort predicted men's life history strategies; (2) men's life history strategies predicted men's behavioral self-regulation; (3) men's self-regulation predicted men's perceptions of partner infidelity risk; (4) perceptions of infidelity risk predicted men's frequency of engagement in nonviolent mate retention behaviors; (5) men's mate retention behaviors predicted men's frequency of partner-directed violence. The overall cascade model explained 36% of variance in men's partner-directed violence.

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导致男性对女性浪漫伴侣实施暴力的社会发展事件的级联模型。

在生活史理论的概念驱动下，当前的研究调查了导致男性在亲密关系中实施暴力的假设行为层次。我们使用一系列分层回归，根据 114 名处于忠诚恋爱关系中的男性提供的数据测试了因果级联模型。结果支持了社会发展事件的假设层次：（1）男性的童年经历及其父母的养育努力预测了男性的生活史策略；(2)男性生活史策略预测男性的行为自我调节；（3）男性的自我调节预测了男性对伴侣不忠风险的看法；(4) 对不忠风险的认知预测了男性参与非暴力择偶行为的频率；(5) 男性的伴侣保留行为可以预测男性遭受伴侣暴力的频率。整体级联模型解释了男性针对伴侣的暴力行为中 36% 的差异。