RT Article
T1 “Why Should I, the One Who Was Raped, Be Forced to Take Training in What Sexual Assault Is?” Sexual Assault Survivors’ and Those Who Know Survivors’ Responses to a Campus Sexual Assault Education Program
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 36
IS 5/6
A1 Worthen, Meredith Gwynne Fair
A2 Wallace, Samantha A.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1750720787
AB This study critically examines sexual assault survivors’ (people with histories of sexual assault) and those who know survivors’ (those who know and/or who are close to people with histories of sexual assault) responses to a mandatory online campus sexual assault education program using both quantitative survey data (N = 1,899) and qualitative narratives (n = 41) from a sample of students at a large southern university with special attention to gender, sexual identity, race, ethnicity, college group affiliations (student athletics, fraternities/sororities, LGBTQ [lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, queer] ally programs), and the intersections between these identities and affiliations. The quantitative findings show that knowing/being a woman survivor is positively related to supportive attitudes toward the sexual assault education program and inversely, knowing/being a man survivor is negatively related to support of the program. In addition, being a woman, being gay/lesbian, being Black/African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Native American/Alaskan Native, or another race, and being a sorority member are all significantly related to supportive attitudes toward the sexual assault education program. Furthermore, qualitative analyses revealed that the majority of personal survivors’ narratives indicated traumatic/triggering responses whereas most of those who provided narratives about knowing survivors(s) indicated praiseworthy reactions. Overall, the current study offers empirically driven sexual assault education program implications that acknowledge survivors’ and those who know survivors’ experiences with the ultimate goal of determining how to best meet students’ needs.
K1 University
K1 College
K1 LGBTQ ally
K1 athlete
K1 fraternity/sorority
K1 Race/ethnicity
K1 Bisexual
K1 heterosexual
K1 Lesbian
K1 Gay
K1 Gender
K1 Rape Victims
K1 Survivors
K1 campus sexual assault
DO 10.1177/0886260518768571