The Role of Victim-Offender Relationship in Women's Sexual Assault Experiences

Autor/inn/en	Ullman, Sarah E.; Filipas, Henrietta H.; Townsend, Stephanie M.; Starzynski, Laura L.
Titel	The Role of Victim-Offender Relationship in Women's Sexual Assault Experiences
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21 (2006) 6, S.798-819 (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260506288590
Schlagwörter	Sexual Abuse; Mail Surveys; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Females; Victims of Crime; Social Cognition; Identification; Interpersonal Relationship; Social Support Groups; Rape; Social Influences; Urban Areas; Attitude Measures; Individual Characteristics; Psychological Patterns + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sexueller Missbrauch; Erhebungsinstrument; Weibliches Geschlecht; Victim; Victims; Crime; Opfer; Verbrechen; Soziale Kognition; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Sexuelle Gewalt; Vergewaltigung; Sozialer Einfluss; Urban area; Stadtregion; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal
Abstract	This study's goal is to identify differences in background, assault, and post assault factors according to the victim-offender relationship. A mail survey is conducted with more than 1,000 female sexual assault survivors (response rate 90%) recruited from college, community, and mental health agency sources. Stranger assailants are associated with a greater victim perceived life threat, more severe sexual assaults, and ethnic minority victims. Positive social reactions do not vary according to the victim-offender relationship, but stranger victims report more negative social reactions from others than do victims of acquaintances or romantic partners. Assaults by strangers and relatives are associated with more posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms than assaults by acquaintances and romantic partners. As expected, survivors' social cognitive responses to rape and social reactions from support providers are stronger correlates of PTSD symptoms than demographic or assault characteristics in general, but correlates vary across victim-offender relationship groups. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10