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Baugher, Shannon N.; Elhai, Jon D.; Monroe, James R.; Gray, Matt J. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
The prediction of false rape-related beliefs (rape myth acceptance [RMA]) was examined using the Illinois Rape Myth Acceptance Scale (Payne, Lonsway, & Fitzgerald, 1999) among a nonclinical sample of 258 male and female college students. Predictor variables included measures of attitudes toward women, gender role identity (GRI), sexual trauma…
Descriptors: Rape, College Students, Attitude Measures, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Fischer, Ann R. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2006
Grounded in the theory of ambivalent sexism, this study tested the speculation that women's benevolent sexist attitudes may be, in part, a self-protective response to environments they perceive as hostile to women. Data that have indirectly supported this conjecture thus far have been correlational. The current study involved a more powerful,…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Social Bias, Females, Feminism