Doing a dissertation was hard. Doing *this* dissertation was a privilege. Special thanks to the dream team @DWOesterle @christie_niamh. And my committee @JennyBrownPhD @SusanCSouth and twitter-less Sean Lane, PhD, and Chris Eckhardt, PhD, for their invaluable feedback and support

6/6. If this article is behind a paywall for you, do not hesitate to message me.

5/6. This review highlights what has been stated elsewhere: “emotion regulation” as a construct suffers from lack of definition and measurement clarity. Once we are more precise about what ER means, we can better understand how and why it influences IPV and how we may target it.

4/6. The ER-IPV literature needs greater variety in terms of research methodology, measurement, and outcomes.

3/6. HOWEVER, the strength of association between ER and IPV perpetration varies widely by ER construct (e.g., anger control vs emotional nonacceptance), with the surprising finding that ER strategy use is not associated with IPV perpetration when analyzed across studies.

2/6. The zero-order association between ER and IPV perpetration is small but significant. This association is robust to sample type and gender.

1/6. Emotion regulation (ER) has been showing up frequently in the IPV lit over the past decade, including in great reviews (Neilson et al., 2023). No meta-analysis of their association had. A quantitative summary was feeling important as IPV interventions increasingly target ER.

Sharing this meta-analysis of the emotion regulation-IPV association we recently published: https://t.co/s24KWLlcU4. Shoutout to @DWOesterle and Chris Eckhardt for their invaluable contributions. Key takeaways below.