TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - Ethnicity and sexual attitudes affect women's judgments of sexual victimization risk JO - Violence against women A1 - Crawford, Jennifer N. A1 - Leiting, Kari A. A1 - Yeater, Elizabeth A. A1 - Verney, Steven P. A1 - Lenberg, Kathryn L. SP - 163 EP - 177 VL - 23 IS - 2 N2 - This study evaluated the effects of ethnicity, sexual attitudes, and sexual victimization history on women's judgments of sexual victimization risk in a set of dating and social scenarios. An ethnically diverse sample of undergraduate women (n= 408) were asked to rate how risky the situations were in terms of having an unwanted sexual experience. American Indian women rated the situations as more risky than did non-Hispanic White or Hispanic women. In addition, participants with more positive attitudes toward a range of sexual experiences rated the situations as less risky than did women with less positive attitudes. Possible implications are discussed.

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