Women’s Response Performance in Sexually Risky Situations: Associations With Disinhibited Sex-Related Alcohol Expectancies
| Autor: | Elizabeth A. Yeater, Kristen N. Vitek |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050103 clinical psychology Alcohol Drinking Sexual Behavior Sex Offenses 05 social sciences Psychological distress 050109 social psychology Alcohol Sex related Clinical Psychology chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Humans Female 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Students Psychology Alcohol-Related Disorders Crime Victims Applied Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 37:NP14854-NP14876 |
| ISSN: | 1552-6518 0886-2605 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/08862605211016354 |
| Popis: | This study evaluated the effects of sexual victimization history, alcohol-related problems, psychological distress, and disinhibited sex-related alcohol expectancies on the effectiveness of women’s response performance in hypothetical social situations depicting risk for sexual victimization. Two hundred and forty-five undergraduate women first listened to audiotaped descriptions of the hypothetical social situations and imagined that they were the woman depicted in each scenario. They then were given a response to each situation deemed in prior work by experts in the sexual victimization research area to be effective at reducing risk for sexual victimization and asked to provide each response verbally while being videotaped. Participants then completed measures assessing prior victimization history, alcohol-related problems, psychological distress, and disinhibited sex-related alcohol expectancies. Experts in the sexual violence research area rated participants’ responses with respect to how effective each response was in decreasing their risk for having an unwanted sexual experience, defined as an experience in which the woman may be verbally or physically coerced into having a sexual contact of any kind with a man. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that disinhibited sex-related alcohol expectancies were associated positively with women’s response performance, indicating that women who endorsed greater disinhibited sex-related alcohol expectancies provided more effective responses to risky hypothetical situations. Findings suggest possible interventions aimed at reducing women’s risk of sexual victimization. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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