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Madison K. Firkey – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Alcohol-related sexual assault is a pressing health concern on U.S. college campuses. The unrelenting prevalence of campus sexual assault has led to a greater focus on how to empower college women to resist unwanted sexual advances within alcohol-infused contexts. Alcohol-aggression expectancies have emerged as one potential barrier to…
Descriptors: Rape, Females, Aggression, Drinking
Michele L. Ybarra; Hanno Petras; Kimberly L. Goodman; Kimberly J. Mitchell – Prevention Science, 2024
To identify factors in adolescence that predict the onset of sexual violence in adolescence and young adulthood. Data were analyzed from six survey waves of the longitudinal Growing up with Media Study (2008-2018) conducted in the USA. Participants were 778 youth 13-18 years old at baseline, who completed online surveys assessing sexual violence…
Descriptors: Rape, Sexuality, Adolescents, Predictor Variables
Rachael Loucks – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The present preliminary study is aimed at finding the interconnection between maladaptive personality characteristics, sexually aggressive behaviors, and rape myth endorsement in a sample comprised of college men. Sexual violence is particularly rampant in the college venue, therefore, understanding more about the risk factors associated with…
Descriptors: Rape, Misconceptions, Sexuality, Aggression
Hudson-Flege, Matthew D.; Grover, Holly M.; Meçe, Merita H.; Ramos, Athena K.; Thompson, Martie P. – Journal of American College Health, 2020
Objective: This study examined if empathy was a significant moderator of several empirically established risk factors for sexual violence perpetration among college men. Participants: Data are from 544 college men who participated in a longitudinal study from 2008 to 2011 at a large, public university. Methods: Participants completed a self-report…
Descriptors: Violence, Risk, Males, Empathy
Jonathan D. Jampel – ProQuest LLC, 2022
There has been a growing body of research on best approaches to reduce college men's sexual assault perpetration. While some interventions have successfully decreased perpetrator behavior, very few have accounted for college men's pre-intervention likelihood of offending (i.e., risk status). Considering the difficulties in changing high-risk men's…
Descriptors: Males, Sexuality, Aggression, College Students
Katehakis, Alexandra – American Journal of Play, 2017
The author looks at the psychology of sexuality and its origins in the brain's cortex. She discusses how the cues for desire sometimes overshadow mere physiological cues and how they may be healthy or unhealthy. She argues that understanding the intricate neurochemical and neurostructural workings of the mind and the central and autonomic nervous…
Descriptors: Psychology, Sexuality, Brain, Fantasy
Honeycutt, Del Rey; Rickard, G. Keilan – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2021
In this article, the authors discuss the pathways to sexual offenses, risk factors, treatment, and unique ethical challenges inherent in working with students who have a history of sexual offending behavior or exhibit risk factors for such behavior. We also address unique clinical competencies and knowledge and provide recommendations for…
Descriptors: College Students, Sexual Abuse, Crime, At Risk Students
Fenner, Lydia – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2017
Despite the presumed centrality of sexual consent to definitions of sexual violence, it remains an ambiguous and often unexamined concept both in lay and professional/scientific discourses. The following literature review of peer-reviewed research studying sexual consent as a scientific object will thematically present major findings from said…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Sexuality, Violence, Sexual Abuse
Reyes, H. Luz McNaughton; Foshee, Vangie A. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Investigators have identified a number of factors that increase risk for physical and psychological dating abuse perpetration during adolescence, but as yet little is known about the etiology of sexual dating aggression during this critical developmental period. This is an important gap in the literature given that research suggests that patterns…
Descriptors: Prevention, Rape, Risk, Early Adolescents
Peterson, Zoe D.; Janssen, Erick; Heiman, Julia R. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
Perpetrating sexual coercion and rape can be conceptualized as a form of sexual risk taking. In this study, the authors evaluated the relationship between sexual aggression and other risky sexual behaviors (e.g., intercourse without a condom) using an online convenience sample of 1,240 heterosexual men. Sexually aggressive men engaged in more…
Descriptors: Drinking, Sexuality, Males, Risk
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
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

Prentky, Robert A.; Knight, Raymond A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Notes that sexual aggression is determined by multiplicity of variables and that convicted sexual offenders are markedly heterogeneous. Surveys offender and nonoffender sexual aggression research for evidence about which dimensions should be included in multivariate models that attempt to discriminate rapists from nonrapists, to identify subgroups…
Descriptors: Aggression, Identification, Rape, Sexuality

Hall, Gordon C. Nagayama; Hirschman, Richard – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Addresses need for unified theoretical model of sexually aggressive behavior against adult females by integrating elements of existing models into quadripartite model which accounts for heterogeneity of sexual aggressors by prominence of potential etiological factors. Model components (physiological sexual arousal, cognitions justifying sexual…
Descriptors: Aggression, Models, Rape, Sexuality
Sisco, Melissa M.; Figueredo, Aurelio Jose – Journal of Sexual Aggression, 2008
Surveys and focus groups were administered to two samples of US university undergraduates to compare sexual aggression prevalence as assessed based on the Power-Assertion model (n = 139) versus the Confluence model (n = 318). Men were more likely to commit all illegal acts, especially conventional rape. Women also committed illegal acts,…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Incidence, Focus Groups