Factors Predicting the Type of Tactics Used to Resist Sexual Assault: A Prospective Study of College Women

Autor/inn/en	Turchik, Jessica A.; Probst, Danielle R.; Chau, Minna; Nigoff, Amy; Gidycz, Christine A.
Titel	Factors Predicting the Type of Tactics Used to Resist Sexual Assault: A Prospective Study of College Women
Quelle	In: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 75 (2007) 4, S.605-614 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-006X
Schlagwörter	Females; Sexual Abuse; College Students; Predictor Variables; Intention; Psychological Patterns; Context Effect; Aggression; Verbal Communication; Self Esteem; Violence; Fear; Interpersonal Relationship; Child Abuse; Victims of Crime; At Risk Persons; Resistance (Psychology) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Sexueller Missbrauch; Collegestudent; Prädiktor; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Gewalt; Furcht; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Risikogruppe; Resistenz
Abstract	The purpose of the current study was to examine how women's intentions, as well as psychological and situational factors, predicted the actual use of resistance tactics in response to a sexual assault situation over a 2-month follow-up period. Twenty-eight percent of the 378 undergraduate women who participated at the baseline assessment and returned for the follow-up session 8 weeks later were victimized over the interim period. The results suggested that women's reported use of verbally assertive tactics was predicted by the intention to use verbally assertive tactics, concern about injury, greater confidence, and feelings of being isolated or controlled by the perpetrator. The use of physically assertive tactics was predicted by increased severity of the attack, greater confidence, and feelings of being isolated or controlled by the perpetrator. The use of nonforceful tactics was predicted by intentions to use nonforceful tactics, increased self-consciousness, knowing the perpetrator prior to the assault, fears of losing the relationship with the perpetrator, and no history of childhood sexual victimization. These findings have important implications in sexual assault risk-reduction programming. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10