@article{ref1,
title="Measurement invariance of the Sexual Assault Script Scale (SASS): an examination among Hispanic and non-Hispanic white college women",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2021",
author="Leiting, Kari and Witkiewitz, Katie and Blackwell, Meredith and Ross, Ryan S. and Vitek, Kristen N. and Yeater, Elizabeth A.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Rates of sexual victimization have remained steady over several decades, and preventative interventions to reduce men's sexually aggressive behavior have been  largely ineffective. As such, research has endeavored to find novel approaches to  identify women at increased risk for sexual victimization. Sexual assault scripts,  or &quot;cognitive models&quot; that women adhere to that guide their beliefs about sexual  assault are posited to influence their victimization risk. Prior studies on sexual  assault scripts primarily have been qualitative in nature; however, recent work  yielded a 27-item measure of putative risk for sexual victimization called the  Sexual Assault Script Scale (SASS). The SASS has four subscales called Stereotypical  Assault Scripts, Acquaintance Assault Scripts, Assault Resistance Scripts, and  Date/Friend Assault Scripts, which were found in prior work to be internally  consistent and associated with putative risk factors for sexual victimization. The  focus of the current study was to test the measurement invariance of the SASS among  Hispanic and non-Hispanic White college women who were recruited in the prior study. Four hundred sixty-nine (N = 469) Hispanic and 415 non-Hispanic White US  undergraduate heterosexual or bisexual women from a Southwestern university in the  United States completed the SASS. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) replicated the  prior four-factor model with an acceptable fit to the data, and tests of measurement  invariance revealed the SASS to be invariant across Hispanic and non-Hispanic White  college women, suggesting that the SASS is measuring a similar construct in these  groups.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260520985491",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260520985491"
}