A Meta-Analysis on the Association Between Rape Myth Acceptance and Sexual Coercion Perpetration

Trottier, Dominique; Benbouriche, Massil; Bonneville, Véronique

doi:10.1080/00224499.2019.1704677

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“…There are two potential methodological explanations for this. First, the IRMAS, the measure with which the items were derived and adapted, is known to produce floor effects, which could explain the lack of a significant association ( Trottier et al, 2021 ). Moreover, with the exception of Dworkin et al (2017) , research on the association between TDV victimization and rape myth acceptance and its specific subscales have not been investigated with an adolescent population and therefore requires replication.…”

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Development and Validation of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure Among Canadian Youth

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Teen dating violence (TDV) victimization is a traumatic experience that can have adverse consequences for adolescents. Current measures that assess TDV do not fully distinguish between psychological and relational forms of aggression, nor do they capture aggressive acts that are common within adolescent relationships. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure (TeDAM) using a sample of 730 Canadian adolescents (M = 15.88 years, SD = 1.23). The measure is an expansion of the Conflict in Adolescent Dating Relationships Inventory and includes items that describe other forms of violence such as coercion and control, along with more traditional indicators of dating violence (e.g., sexual aggression). Factor analyses yielded three factors, namely psychological aggression, sexual and physical aggression, and relational aggression, which were correlated with more frequent cannabis and alcohol use as well as rape myth acceptance. These results provide initial support for the utility of the TeDAM for assessing TDV with adolescents.

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Development and Validation of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure Among Canadian Youth

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“…In Bohner et al's study, men who received experimentally manipulated feedback that other college students' level of rape myth acceptance was higher than their own scores, scored high on rape proclivity (i.e., indicating that they would have behaved similarly to a perpetrator described in vignettes of acquaintance rape and that they would have "enjoyed getting their own way"). A comprehensive meta-analysis provides further converging evidence for this pattern; across 28 studies, researchers found a robust association between rape myth acceptance and sexual coercion perpetration (Trottier, Benbouriche, & Bonneville, 2019). The information that is systematically selected for inclusion in campus crime alerts (as well as the information not included) speaks volumes; it serves as a subtle cue of an environment's tolerance rape myths.…”

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University Crime Alerts: Do They Contribute to Institutional Betrayal and Rape Myths?

Adams-Clark¹,

Bhuptani²,

Smith³

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Universities are mandated by the Clery Act (20 USC § 1092(f)) to publicize the occurrence of certain campus crimes. Many universities rely on "Crime Alert" emails to quickly and effectively communicate when a crime has occurred. However, communications of sexual crimes are often narrow (e.g., limited to stranger-perpetrated crimes) and misleading (e.g., containing safety tips that are not applicable to most types of sexual violence). The current paper presents the results of two studies that test the effects of reading crime alert emails on subsequent endorsement of rape myths and institutional betrayal. In Study 1, participants read a typical crime alert email describing a stranger-perpetrated crime, an alternative email describing an acquaintance-perpetrated crime, or a control email describing an event unrelated to interpersonal violence. Men were significantly more likely to endorse rape myths than were women in the control condition, but not in the typical or alternative email condition. In addition, results from Study 1 indicate that issuing crime alert emails following stranger-perpetrated sexual violence leads to a sense of institutional betrayal among students who have experienced acquaintance-perpetrated violence. In Study 2, participants read a typical crime alert email or an alternative digest email. Participants who read the typical email reported higher rape myth acceptance, but not institutional betrayal, than those who read the digest email. There were also significant gender differences in student opinions of each email that suggest the digest email format may serve as a useful tool for engaging male students in the issue of campus sexual violence. Taken together, these studies provide converging evidence that university communication regarding sexual violence can either perpetuate or positively influence attitudes towards sexual violence.

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“…Future research may also inform prevention efforts by identifying new, important attitudinal targets specific to the victimization of bisexual women that may inform or exacerbate already-known influences on bystander intervention, 8 victimization, and/or support around disclosure of sexual violence. For example, interventions intending to address this vulnerability may consider the importance of relationship-level factors such as endorsement or passive acceptance of biphobia or hostile sexism in a way similar to those that aim to dispel rape myths (e.g., Trottier et al, 2021). Organization-level interventions (e.g., college consent trainings) may also benefit from raising awareness of these prejudicial beliefs (e.g., biphobia, hostile sexism) and the role they may play in increasing bisexual women's vulnerability to sexual violence.…”

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The relationship between social group prejudice and vulnerability to sexual violence in bisexual women.

Grove¹,

Johnson²

2023

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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Researchers have consistently found an increased vulnerability to sexual violence in bisexual women. Much like the broader literature around sexual violence against women, the limited research examining this vulnerability in bisexual women has focused on intraindividual victim factors such as alcohol use, mental health, and previous sexual assault victimization. Sexual violence researchers are expanding their purview to include sociocultural factors manifested in the immediate context of sexual violence perpetration and victimization. Adding to this expanding awareness of the importance of these factors, the current study explored the relationships between bisexual women's perceived experiences of dehumanization, hostile sexism, and biphobia in the social circle with which they spend the most time and their reported experience of sexual violence within the last year. Consistent with prior research indicating heightened vulnerability to sexual violence in bisexual women a substantial portion of participants (72.2%) reported experiencing sexual violence within the last year. Of those participants reporting experiences of sexual violence, most (93%) of those reporting sexual violence endorsing surviving rape. Hypotheses were partially supported, with peer hostile sexism, biphobia, and dehumanization of bisexual women significantly relating to sexual violence. When examined simultaneously, only peer hostile sexism and biphobia emerged as unique predictors of vulnerability to sexual violence. The current study adds to the literature supporting the need for increased focus on bisexual women's unique vulnerability to sexual violence, as well as the important and underexamined roles of sexism and biphobia as contributing factors to this vulnerability through peer-level processes and social norms. Public Significance StatementThis study adds to an expanding literature addressing sexual violence against bisexual women and associated risk factors in peer group environments. The results indicate that hostile sexism and biphobia in bisexual women's social environments may be related to the perpetration of sexual violence against bisexual women, identifying potential targets for prevention efforts. Recommendations for support professionals and additional research directions are also included. Research has shown that bisexual women face a distinctly high level of vulnerability to sexual violence (e.g., Balsam, 2003;Johnson & Grove, 2017;Sigurvinsdottir & Ulman, 2015). In a review of the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS; Walters et al., 2013), bisexual women reported rates of rape more than three times higher than rates reported by lesbian and heterosexual women, and rates of other lifetime sexual violence victimization (e.g., unwanted sexual contact, attempted rape) more than twice that of lesbian and heterosexual women. Recent lines of research have emerged from these findings with a significant focus on individual-level victim factors such as substance use, previous sexual victimization, and bi...

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A Meta-Analysis on the Association Between Rape Myth Acceptance and Sexual Coercion Perpetration

Cited by 61 publications

References 38 publications

Development and Validation of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure Among Canadian Youth

Development and Validation of the Teen Dating Aggression Measure Among Canadian Youth

University Crime Alerts: Do They Contribute to Institutional Betrayal and Rape Myths?

The relationship between social group prejudice and vulnerability to sexual violence in bisexual women.

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