The Assessment of Forced Penetration: A Necessary and Further Step Toward Understanding Men’s Sexual Victimization and Women’s Perpetration

Anderson, RaeAnn E.; Goodman, Erica L.; Thimm, Sidney S.

doi:10.1177/1043986220936108

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“…Two manuscripts have been previously published from these datasets. Data from Samples 1 and 2 were included in a study on made-to-penetrate victimization (Anderson et al, 2020) and data from Sample 1 in a study on the impact of tactic-first items (Anderson et al, 2021).…”

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An Experimental Test of the Impact of Varying Questionnaire Response Format on Prevalence Rates for Sexual Violence Victimization and Perpetration

Anderson

Cuccolo

2021

J Interpers Violence

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Objective: This study examined the impact of a dichotomous versus scaled response format on prevalence rates of sexual violence perpetration and victimization, thus conceptually replicating Hamby et al., 2006 and extending those findings to the context of sexual violence. Methods: Two samples were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk and were randomly assigned to either a dichotomous or scaled response format of the same questionnaire. Sample 1 was used to examine perpetration and received a perpetration specific version of the Post-Refusal Sexual Persistence Scale (PRSPS). Sample 2 was used to examine victimization and received a victimization specific version of the PRSPS. Results: Men and women who received the scaled response format reported significantly more incidents of sexual perpetration, and for each type of tactic studied, on the order of 1.7-9x more frequently. The association between response format condition and prevalence rates of sexual violence victimization was significant only for men (23.0 vs 39.4%) and for the tactic of verbal coercion (30.1 vs 41.5%), with the scaled response format producing greater responding. Conclusions: The response format of sexual violence items can significantly alter prevalence rates of sexual violence perpetration, with scaled response formats producing greater endorsements than dichotomous formats. Response format also appears to impact prevalence rates of sexual violence victimization, particularly for men.

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An Experimental Test of the Impact of Varying Questionnaire Response Format on Prevalence Rates for Sexual Violence Victimization and Perpetration

Anderson

Cuccolo

2021

J Interpers Violence

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“…Before discussing more detail, the reader is advised that these reviews collect published literature that virtually all address rape from a heteronormative, sex-based binary where women are victims and men are perpetrators; and further confound genital anatomy with gender identity. The fault lies with the research that has been conducted, not insensitivity of the reviewers (for work beginning to move beyond the binary, see Anderson et al, 2020). Fedina et al (2018) reviewed 34 independent sexual victimization surveys from the years 2000 to 2015 (N = 84,461 students).…”

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The Scope of Rape Victimization and Perpetration Among National Samples of College Students Across 30 years

Koss

Swartout

Lopez

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J Interpers Violence

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Research Questions: Rape prevention practice and policy have roots in data from 1985. This study uses 2015 national data to project recent prevalence, assesses whether rates now differ from those of 30 years ago, and disaggregates 2015 prevalence into rape of alcohol incapacitated victims, rapes combining both alcohol and physical tactics, and violent rape. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses were conducted comparing two national samples. The first was collected in 1984-85 (Koss, Gidycz, & Wisniewski, 1987); the second was collected 30 years later in 2014-2015. Both surveys used in-person administration and measurement by the most current version at the time of the Sexual Experiences Survey (SES). Prevalence rates were compared using Bayesian binomial tests. Results: In 2015, 33.4% (1 in 3) of women reported experiencing rape or attempted rape and 12.7% of men reported perpetration (1 in 8). Using Jeffreys' label for effect size of the Bayes binomial (1961), both results are “decisively” greater than expected given the 1985 benchmarks of 27.9% for victimization and 7.7% for perpetration. Victimization when incapacitated characterized approximately 75% of incidents in 2015 up from 50% in 1985. Cautions apply as cross-sectional data does not establish causality and the recent data set involved the revised SES. Conclusions: Across 30 years, neither containment nor reduction of rape was demonstrated and the increasingly prominent association with alcohol was apparent. Among the men who disclosed raping, 9 of 10 incidents were alcohol-involved. Prevention focus might profitably be directed to constraining alcohol environments and policies that facilitate rape of incapacitated persons and on misconduct responses that are proportional to the harm caused to rape victims, thereby raising the perceived risks of perpetration.

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“…But, given this finding was specific to heterosexual men, the lower validity correlations may also reflect a weakness in the research in capturing women's perpetration behavior (Stemple & Meyer, 2014). For example, heterosexual men are much more likely to experience made to penetrate victimization than women, a type of sexual perpetration primarily instigated by heterosexual women (Anderson, Goodman, & Thimm, 2020). This possibility, that currently available measures neglect heterosexual men's victimization experiences and heterosexual women's perpetration is also consistent with our findings that validity correlations were significantly stronger for sexual minority men.…”

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Valid for who? A preliminary investigation of the validity of two sexual victimization questionnaires in men and sexual minorities

Anderson¹,

Namie²,

Goodman³

2021

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The #MeToo movement illuminated vast numbers of people who experienced sexual violence, but the exact scope and impact, especially among under-studied populations (e.g., men and sexual minorities) is unclear, due in part to measurement issues. Our objective was to compare the validity of two measures of sexual violence victimization: The Sexual Experiences Survey – Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV) and The Post-Refusal Sexual Persistence Scale – Victimization (PRSPS-V). Participants were 673 college students who first completed the Rape Empathy for Victims (REM-V) and then the SES-SFV and PRSPS-V (counter-balanced). We found strong evidence of convergent validity for the PRSPS-V with correlations ranging from r = .57 – 88. Convergent validity correlations were strongest for sexual minority women (r = .88) and weakest for heterosexual men (r = .57). We also found evidence of differential validity for the SES-SFV and PRSPS-V. For heterosexual women, rape empathy was cor-related to victimization on both questionnaires (r = .25 - .29). However, for heterosexual men, only scores on the SES-SFV were correlated with rape empathy for victims (r = .19). For sexual minorities there appeared to be differences between PRSPS-V only victims and those who reported victimization on both questionnaires in rape empathy (F = 2.65, p = .053). These results provide researchers a starting point for improving these questionnaires to collect more accurate data that helps improve the ability to detect cases of sexual victimization and thus, prevent and heal sexual victimization, especial-ly in understudied populations such as men and sexual minorities.

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The Assessment of Forced Penetration: A Necessary and Further Step Toward Understanding Men’s Sexual Victimization and Women’s Perpetration

Cited by 26 publications

References 39 publications

An Experimental Test of the Impact of Varying Questionnaire Response Format on Prevalence Rates for Sexual Violence Victimization and Perpetration

An Experimental Test of the Impact of Varying Questionnaire Response Format on Prevalence Rates for Sexual Violence Victimization and Perpetration

The Scope of Rape Victimization and Perpetration Among National Samples of College Students Across 30 years

Valid for who? A preliminary investigation of the validity of two sexual victimization questionnaires in men and sexual minorities

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