Varying forms of husband sexual aggression: Predictors and subgroup differences.

Abstract
Tively in Hanneke, Shields, & McCall, 1986; 12%, 10%, and 4%, respectively in Russell, 1982; 22.5%, 17.5%, and 1.7%, respectively in Painter & Farrington, 1998). Also, in the few studies to directly examine this issue, reports of husband physical and sexual violence are found to be correlated (r .34 in Frieze, 1983; r .12 in Meyer et al., 1998). These correlations, however, are not as high as would be expected. Indeed, the weak association found in Meyer et al. (1998) suggests the need for further examination of the relationship between husband sexual and physical violence. In addition, prior research has demonstrated that husband psychological aggression is significantly correlated with husband physical aggression, even among less severely violent samples (e.g., Cascardi, O'Leary, Lawrence, & Schlee, 1995). Psychological aggression has also been found to predict the onset of husbands' physical aggression longitudinally (Murphy & O'Leary, 1989). Such findings suggest that psychological and physical aggression may reflect different manifestations of a single underlying con- struct. However, factor analyses suggest that psychological and physical aggression represent distinct factors (e.g., Shepard & Campbell, 1992) and, using probit analysis, Stets (1990) argued that psychological and physical aggression represent two separate phenomena characterized by a two- step process that starts with psychological aggression and moves into physical aggression. Although this issue has not been resolved, psychological and physical aggression both are deserving of empirical attention. Indeed, given the re- lationship between husband psychological and physical ag- gression, as well as the apparent relationship between hus- band physical and sexual aggression, it is important to examine whether husband psychological aggression is dis- tinctly related to husband sexual aggression. Similar to the proposed theoretical links between husbands' psychological and physical aggression, husband-to-wife psychological and