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Smith, Diane Dani – ProQuest LLC, 2013
College students are at high risk of experiencing serious problems related to physical and social health issues that include binge drinking, sexual assault, and contracting a sexually transmitted disease. Despite research reporting that many of these incidents co-occur on campuses, university prevention programs have failed to present the…
Descriptors: Drinking, Sexuality, Rape, Quasiexperimental Design
Romero-Sanchez, Monica; Duran, Mercedes; Carretero-Dios, Hugo; Megias, Jesus L.; Moya, Miguel – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The aim of this study is to explore the effect of exposure to sexist humor about women on men's self-reported rape proclivity. Earlier studies have shown that exposure to this type of humor increases rape proclivity and that funniness responses to jokes are a key element to consider. However, the role of aversiveness responses has not been…
Descriptors: Rape, Humor, Gender Bias, Females
Thompson, Martie P.; Koss, Mary P.; Kingree, J. B.; Goree, Jennifer; Rice, John – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Guided by the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), the authors examined prospective associations of attitudes, norms, and control with sexual aggression (SA) perpetration 1 year later among male college students. Data were collected from 652 males via confidential, self-report surveys at the end of their 1st and 2nd years in college. Results…
Descriptors: Prevention, At Risk Persons, Aggression, Sexuality
McMahon, Sarah; Farmer, G. Lawrence – Social Work Research, 2011
Social workers responsible for developing rape prevention programs on college campuses must have valid evaluation instruments. This article presents the challenges encountered by the authors when they attempted to keep rape myth measures relevant to student populations by updating the language to reflect the subtleties involved with rape myths.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Campuses, Rape
Moynihan, Mary M.; Banyard, Victoria L.; Arnold, Julie S.; Eckstein, Robert P.; Stapleton, Jane G. – Journal of American College Health, 2010
Objective: The object of this exploratory evaluation was to evaluate the "Bringing in the Bystander" sexual and intimate partner violence prevention program with a new sample of intercollegiate athletes. Participants and Methods: Fifty-three male and female athletes participated in the program (experimental group), and 86 were in the control…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Intimacy, Violence
Edwards, Keith E. – College Student Affairs Journal, 2009
The author examined the impact on resident assistants of a social change approach to sexual assault prevention. The interactive multi-media program focused on engaging men on sexual assault prevention, accurately defining rape for college men and women, identifying aspects of the rape culture in society and on-campus, and empowering college…
Descriptors: Resident Advisers, Social Change, Sexual Abuse, Rape
Zinzow, Heidi M.; Amstadter, Ananda B.; McCauley, Jenna L.; Ruggiero, Kenneth J.; Resnick, Heidi S.; Kilpatrick, Dean G. – Journal of American College Health, 2011
Objective: The purpose of this study was to employ a multivariate approach to examine the correlates of self-rated health in a college sample of women, with particular emphasis on sexual assault history and related mental health outcomes. Participants: A national sample of 2,000 female college students participated in a structured phone interview…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Rape, Low Income, Females
Voller, Emily K.; Long, Patricia J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
A sample of 521 college men completed the Revised NEO Personality Inventory and an expanded version of the Sexual Experiences Survey to examine whether variation in the Big Five personality traits in a normal, college population provides any insight into the nature of sexual assault and rape perpetrators. Rape perpetrators reported lower levels of…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Personality Measures, Surveys, Sexuality
Littleton, Heather; Axsom, Danny; Grills-Taquechel, Amie – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2009
How a victim of rape characterizes her assault has potential implications for her postassault experiences and revictimization risk. Prior research has identified several potential benefits to not conceptualizing one's experience as a form of victimization. The current study sought to identify whether there are costs to not acknowledging rape as…
Descriptors: Rape, Drinking, Victims of Crime, Sexual Abuse
Anderson, Timothy; Fende Guajardo, Jennifer; Luthra, Rohini; Edwards, Katie M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study assessed the effects of clinician-assisted emotional disclosure (CAED), an integration of emotion focused therapy (Greenberg, Rice, & Elliott, 1993) and emotional disclosure, in ameliorating distress experienced by survivors of sexual assault. A total of 670 female university students were screened for both histories of sexual…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sexual Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychotherapy
Sander, Libby – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports on the situation unfolding at the University of Iowa which is all too familiar: Two athletes are accused of rape. The university botches its response. Heads roll. Few things make university presidents and their top aides more nervous than an athlete accused of sexual assault. Most colleges welcome the exposure that a big-time…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, College Administration, Rape, Athletes
Stephens, Kari A.; George, William H. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2009
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a theoretically based rape prevention intervention with college men who were at high or low risk to perpetrate sexually coercive behavior. Participants (N = 146) are randomly assigned to the intervention or control group. Outcomes include rape myth acceptance, victim empathy, attraction to sexual…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Rape, Mythology
James, Jennifer Veronica – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The present study attempted to accurately measure crimes that occur on a college campus and whether students' perceptions of police influenced their decisions to report their victimization. A specific emphasis was placed on sexual assaults. Previous research has examined the reporting of sexual assault (Bachman, 1998; Sampson, 2002), sexual…
Descriptors: Violence, Sexual Abuse, Student Attitudes, Crime
Paul, Lisa A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A sexual assault intervention was designed using applicable research from social psychology (i.e., social norms). Undergraduate men were randomly assigned to the experimental intervention or an active control condition. Attitudinal and behavioral data were collected preintervention, post-intervention and at a one month follow-up. Significant…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sexual Abuse, Behavior Modification, Intention
Foubert, John D.; Langhinrichsen-Rohling, Jennifer; Brasfield, Hope; Hill, Brent – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
An experimental study evaluated the efficacy of a sexual assault risk-reduction program on 279 college women that focused on learning characteristics of male perpetrators and teaching bystander intervention techniques. After seeing The Women's Program, participants reported significantly greater bystander efficacy and significantly greater…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Rape, Females