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.

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等级。使用一系列层次回归，我们测试了一个因果级联模型，数据由 114 名处于恋爱关系中的男性提供。结果支持了社会发展事件的假设等级：（1）男性在父母的努力下的童年经历预测了男性的生活史策略；(2)男性生活史策略预测男性行为自我调节；(3) 男性自我调节预测男性对伴侣不忠风险的感知；(4) 对不忠风险的感知预测了男性参与非暴力伴侣保留行为的频率；(5) 男士 s 配偶保留行为预测了男性针对伴侣暴力的频率。整体级联模型解释了男性伴侣导向暴力中 36% 的差异。