@article{ref1,
title="Sexual victimization among college women: role of sexual assertiveness and resistance variables",
journal="Psychology of violence",
year="2016",
author="Kelley, Erika L. and Orchowski, Lindsay M. and Gidycz, Christine A.",
volume="6",
number="2",
pages="243-252",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: College women are at high risk for sexual assault, especially women with a history of sexual victimization. The present study uses a longitudinal design to explore the role of sexual assertiveness, psychological barriers to resistance, and resistance self-efficacy as putative mediators between prior sexual victimization and sexual revictimization among a sample of 296 college women. <br><br>METHOD: Women completed assessments of sexual victimization since the age of 14, as well as putative mediator variables at a baseline assessment. Sexual revictimization was assessed over a 7-month interim. <br><br>RESULTS: Results of structural equation modeling indicated that the relationship between baseline and follow-up sexual assault was mediated by the study variables. Follow-up analyses suggested that sexual assertiveness served as a particularly salient mediator. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest that increasing women's sexual assertiveness skills may be a particularly important component of reducing risk for sexual revictimization among women with a history of assault.   ©2016 American Psychological Association<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2152-0828",
doi="10.1037/a0039407",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0039407"
}