Citation

Macy RJ, Nurius PS, Norris J. Violence Against Women 2006; 12(5): 478-500.

Affiliation

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801206288104

PMID

16617172

Abstract

Using an investigation of 202 college women who completed a survey about coping with sexual aggression from a known male assailant, the authors examined assailant behaviors, along with women's victimization history, alcohol use, positive relationship expectancies, and sexual assertiveness, to clarify how these factors shape women's responses to acquaintance sexual aggression. Multivariate regression analyses showed that these factors and assailant actions accounted uniquely and cumulatively for women's responding. Rape avoidance and resistance training programs can benefit by using a two-pronged approach: by targeting factors that impede and promote women's assertion and by helping women anticipate and respond to assailant actions.

Language: en