Similarities and Differences in Women's Sexual Assault Experiences Based on Tactics Used by the Perpetrator

Autor/inn/en	Abbey, Antonia; BeShears, Renee; Clinton-Sherrod, A. Monique; McAuslan, Pam
Titel	Similarities and Differences in Women's Sexual Assault Experiences Based on Tactics Used by the Perpetrator
Quelle	In: Psychology of Women Quarterly, 28 (2004) 4, S.323-332 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-6843
DOI	10.1111/j.1471-6402.2004.00149.x
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Metropolitan Areas; Females; Experience; Emotional Response; African Americans; Whites; Adults; Telephone Surveys; Rape; Individual Characteristics; Methods; Violence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Ballungsraum; Weibliches Geschlecht; Erfahrung; Emotionales Verhalten; Afroamerikaner; White; Weißer; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Method; Methode; Gewalt
Abstract	Only a few studies have examined the characteristics of sexual assault based on the tactics used by the perpetrator. In this study we compared the experiences of women who were forced to engage in vaginal, anal, or oral intercourse due to verbal coercion, physical force, or intoxication. Random-digit dialing was used to obtain a sample of 272 single African American and Caucasian women between the ages of 18 and 49 from the Detroit metropolitan area. Participants completed a computer-assisted self-interview that asked detailed questions about a past sexual assault and their reactions to it. Among the 139 women who were forced to engage in vaginal, anal, or oral intercourse, sexual assaults that involved physical force produced the most severe negative outcomes. Situations that involved the woman being too intoxicated to resist differed from others primarily in terms of how much alcohol the man and woman consumed. Although all types of sexual assault were perceived as being at least moderately serious, verbally coerced assaults were on average perceived as being least serious. These findings suggest that the perpetrators' tactics affect women's responses to sexual assault. (Author).
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