What Money Can’t Buy: Different Patterns in Decision Making About Sex and Money Predict Past Sexual Coercion Perpetration
Autor: | Joanne-Lucine Rouleau, Gaëlle Cyr, Fannie Carrier Emond, Jean Gagnon, Kevin Nolet |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male 050103 clinical psychology Coercion Sexual Behavior Decision Making 050109 social psychology Context (language use) Human sexuality Impulsivity behavioral disciplines and activities Sexual coercion Young Adult Reward Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences health care economics and organizations General Psychology Discounting Gratification 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Impulsive Behavior Female Self Report medicine.symptom Construct (philosophy) Psychology Social psychology |
Zdroj: | Archives of Sexual Behavior. 47:429-441 |
ISSN: | 1573-2800 0004-0002 |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10508-017-1116-0 |
Popis: | Self-reported impulsivity has been found to predict the perpetration of sexual coercion in both sexual offenders and male college students. Impulsivity can be conceptualized as a generalized lack of self-control (i.e., general perspective) or as a multifaceted construct that can vary from one context to the other (i.e., domain-specific perspective). Delay discounting, the tendency to prefer sooner smaller rewards over larger delayed rewards, is a measure of impulsive decision making. Recent sexual adaptations of delay discounting tasks can be used to test domain-specific assumptions. The present study used the UPPS-P impulsivity questionnaire, a standard money discounting task, and a sexual discounting task to predict past use of sexual coercion in a sample of 98 male college students. Results indicated that higher negative urgency scores, less impulsive money discounting, and more impulsive sexual discounting all predicted sexual coercion. Consistent with previous studies, sexuality was discounted more steeply than money by both perpetrators and non-perpetrators of sexual coercion, but this difference was twice as large in perpetrators compared to non-perpetrators. Our study identified three different predictors of sexual coercion in male college students: a broad tendency to act rashly under negative emotions, a specific difficulty to postpone sexual gratification, and a pattern of optimal non-sexual decision making. Results highlight the importance of using multiple measures, including sexuality-specific measures, to get a clear portrait of the links between impulsivity and sexual coercion. |
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