Examining Intimate Partner Aggression Assessment Among Returning Veterans and Their Partners

Deployment and combat exposure can put stress on both a Service member and their intimate relationships. The rate of intimate partner aggression, concordance of intimate partner aggression reporting, and associations with relationship satisfaction and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were examined among male OIF/OEF combat Veterans and their female partners. Partners of OIF/OEF Veterans perpetrated more physical intimate partner aggression than did Veterans; however, agreement between Veterans' and partners’ reports of perpetration was low to moderate.