TY - SER AU - Herrero,Juan AU - Rodríguez-Franco,Luis AU - Rejano-Hernández,Lorena AU - Juarros-Basterretxea,Joel AU - Rodríguez-Díaz,Francisco J. TI - The actor-partner interdependence model in the study of aggression and victimization within couples: an empirical examination in 361 dyads SN - 1132-0559 AV - HM251 .H477 2020 U1 - 302 23 PY - 2020/// CY - [Madrid] PB - Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos de Madrid KW - Sesgo de autoinforme KW - Agresión mutua KW - Discrepancia agresión- victimización KW - Modelo de interdependencia actor-pareja KW - Violencia de pareja KW - Artículos N2 - Studies of intimate partner violence (IPV) have generally focused on only one partner. Although this has allowed advances in scientific knowledge on the causes of IPV, currently recent literature is demanding the need to study both members of the couple. Methodologically, the study of dyads requires the use of appropriate statistical techniques to avoid possible systematic biases (for example, type I error due to dependence of observations). We used the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model to study aggression and victimization in 361 heterosexual couples of young adults. The results indicated, on the one hand, that self-reported mutual aggression was found in more than 50% of the couples. On the other hand, we found that participants victimization was largely predicted by their own aggressive behavior towards the other member of the couple. While this result suggests the existence of a victim-offender overlap, it may also hide an upwards victimization scores bias: when participants are aggressive toward their partners, they may bias their victimization scores upwards to justify their levels of aggression ("I was aggressive because I felt victimized" UR - https://elibro.net/ereader/pedagogica/143951 ER -