The Sexual Victimization of College Women

Fisher, Bonnie S.; Cullen, Francis T.; Turner, Michael G.

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“…Similarly, women aged 16-24 are at increased risk of non-fatal partner violence compared with women of other age groups (Rennison, 2001). At least two thirds of rapes and sexual assault are perpetrated by someone the victim knows, often a current or former intimate partner or an acquaintance (Basile et al, 2011;Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Further, most of this sexual violence occurs in social situations; usually others are present and alcohol and drug intoxication are often involved (Abbey et al, 2004;Banyard et al, 2004).…”

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“…In addition, college women are significantly more likely to experience sexual violence than women of other age groups and women of the same age group who are not on college campuses (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Similarly, women aged 16-24 are at increased risk of non-fatal partner violence compared with women of other age groups (Rennison, 2001).…”

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Evaluation of a Bystander Education Program

Amar

Sutherland

Kesler

2012

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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Sexual and partner violence are widespread problems on college campuses. By changing attitudes, beliefs, and behavior, bystander education programs have been found to prevent sexual and partner violence and improve the responses of peers to survivors. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and feasibility of a bystander education program that was adapted to a specific university setting. A convenience sample of 202, full-time undergraduate students aged 18-22 years participated in the bystander education program and completed pre- and post-test measures of attitudes related to sexual and partner violence and willingness to help. Paired sample t-tests were used to examine changes in scores between pre- and post-test conditions. After the program, participants' reported decreased rape myth acceptance and denial of interpersonal violence, and increased intention to act as a bystander and an increased sense of responsibility to intervene. Mental health nurses can use principles of bystander education in violence prevention programs and in providing support to survivors.

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Section: Background and Significancementioning

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Evaluation of a Bystander Education Program

Amar

Sutherland

Kesler

2012

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

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“…Sexual victimization encompasses many behaviors, ranging from attempted sexual coercion to attempted and completed rape (Fisher, Cullen, and Turner, 2000).…”

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Sexual Victimization in Female and Male College Students: Examining the Roles of Alcohol use, Alcohol Expectancies, and Sexual Sensation Seeking

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Tomaka

Palacios

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Substance Use & Misuse

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Alcohol and alcohol expectancies relate to sexual victimization. The present study examined these links in a sample of 407 predominantly Hispanic male and female college students, along the Mexico-US border. The study also examined the independent contribution of sexual sensation seeking to the prediction of victimization. Results showed that victimization was associated with alcohol risk, alcohol consumption-related problems, and positive alcohol expectancies. Importantly, sexual sensation seeking independently predicted victimization and did so after controlling for alcohol risk and expectancies. Our results suggest that associations among victimization, alcohol risk, and expectancies generalize to Hispanic women and men. The study's limitations are noted.

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“…The majority of sexual assaults among college students are perpetrated not by intimate partners but by classmates, friends, acquaintances or “hook-ups” (Fisher, Cullen, and Turner, 2000; Flack et al, 2007; Littleton and Breitkopf, 2006). Intimate partners are significantly less likely than acquaintances to use drugs and alcohol as a sexual aggression tactic (Cleveland, Koss, and Lyons, 1999; Koss, Dinero, Seibel, and Cox, 1988), relying instead on the easy access afforded by the relationship, sexual precedence, and verbal persuasion to obtain sex from an unwilling partner (see Livingston, Buddie, Testa, and VanZile-Tamsen, 2004).…”

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Alcohol Consumption and Women's Vulnerability to Sexual Victimization: Can Reducing Women's Drinking Prevent Rape?

Testa

Livingston

2009

Substance Use & Misuse

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Before effective prevention interventions can be developed, it is necessary to identify the mechanisms that contribute to the targeted negative outcomes. A review of the literature on women's substance use and sexual victimization points to women's heavy episodic drinking as a proximal risk factor, particularly among college samples. At least half of sexual victimization incidents involve alcohol use and the majority of rapes of college women occur when the victim is too intoxicated to resist ("incapacitated rape"). Despite the importance of women's heavy episodic drinking as being a risk factor, existing rape prevention programs have rarely addressed women's alcohol use and have shown little success in reducing rates of sexual victimization. We argue that given the strength of the association between heavy episodic drinking and sexual victimization among young women, prevention programs targeting drinking may prove more efficacious than programs targeting sexual vulnerability. Applications of existing drinking prevention strategies to reducing women's sexual victimization are discussed.

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The Sexual Victimization of College Women

Cited by 247 publications

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Evaluation of a Bystander Education Program

Evaluation of a Bystander Education Program

Sexual Victimization in Female and Male College Students: Examining the Roles of Alcohol use, Alcohol Expectancies, and Sexual Sensation Seeking

Alcohol Consumption and Women's Vulnerability to Sexual Victimization: Can Reducing Women's Drinking Prevent Rape?

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