Despite growing evidence suggesting that women engage in verbal and physical dating aggression, there is a dearth of research examining the predictors of women's engagement in these behaviors. Utilizing a college sample, the purpose of the current study was to explore women's perpetration of dating aggression within the context of victimization…

Conducts a prospective analysis of sexual assault for 857 college women to assess pathways through which victimization experiences become linked. History of child and adolescent sexual victimization experiences was determined for adult victims and nonvictims. Results indicate that early sexual victimization is a risk factor for adult…

The sexual victimization experiences of 677 college women were correlated with child and adolescent victimization, family and psychological adjustment, alcohol use, interpersonal functioning, and sexual behavior. Analyses indicated that the chances of being victimized increased with greater severity of previous victimization. (SLD)