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According to the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, approximately 1 in 5 women and 1 in 7 men will experience stalking, physical violence, and/or rape by an intimate partner in their lifetimes, and almost half of U.S. men and women have been the victim of psychological abuse by an intimate during their lives (Black et al. ). These behaviors can be considered as indicative of “coercive control,” a pattern of abusive behavior that can lead a victimized person to feel trapped in an intimate relationship characterized by a loss of power and control (see Stark ). Using data from a random stratified sample of 786 undergraduates at a large southeastern university located in a rural area, we examined the relationship between sexual orientation, self-control, alcohol consumption, partying, demographics, prior intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization, and psychological IPV among students since …