The data for men who use violence in the couple relationship indicate that the absence of conflict resolving skills is a risk factor in studies of domestic violence. Studies suggest that in explaining violence in the context of an intimate relationship, individual variables are important, but not to the extent of other much more important variables corresponding to relationship style. It is essential to contemplate the vision of each member of a couple (reciprocity) as this allows us to study the strategies of control and domination that one person exercises over the other. This contrasted bidirectional analysis helps us better to understand couple functioning, the capacity to express affection and the degree of violence shown. For this purpose, the author of this study designed the Patterns of Communication and Conflict Resolution in the Couple Questionnaire (PC-CR-Couple) which is intended to measure two styles of communication in the couple relationship: a positive style (constructive-open) and a negative style (destructive-closed). The objective of this study was to analyse how 515 men (405 from the general population and 110 released prisoners convicted of domestic violence) perceived communication with their partners. Several questionnaires that measure personality, aggression, self-esteem, and scales for monitoring response bias were used. The results obtained using multiple regression analysis indicate that the variables that best predict "Exclusion Communication/Imposition (Violent)" (VD) in the couple relationship are those of showing Disagreement, absence of Implicative-Integratory Communication, being Honest, and Paranoid and Histrionic personality.
