RT Article
T1 Dynamic Risk Factors Characterizing Aggressive Sexual Initiation by Female College Students
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 36
IS 5/6
SP 2455
OP 2477
A1 Carvalho, Joana
A2 Joel Rosa, Pedro
A2 Andrade, Bruna Pereira de 1985-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1750721252
AB Past research has supported that community women engage in sexually coercive strategies as a means to initiate sexual intercourse with men. However, at the present state of the knowledge, there is a great lack of scientific information on the psychological characterization of these women. In accordance, the aim of the present study was to characterize the psychopathological and personality profile of a sample of college women reporting sexual initiation by coercive approaches, and to predict membership in the categories of sexually abusive strategies that were used by these women. Findings revealed that 32.7% of women reported to have used some kind of sexually coercive strategy in the past; these women were characterized by the endorsement of more psychopathology symptoms (e.g., depression, anxiety, somatization), and a maladaptive personality style (e.g., neuroticism, impulsiveness, negative trait-affect), in relation to the nonaggressive peers. Also, among the sexually aggressive group, extraversion predicted membership in the category of physical force (i.e., women using physical force to initiate sexual interaction). Findings add to the literature by showing that college women reporting sexually aggressive strategies as a means to initiate sexual intercourse with men present a set of psychopathological and personality features that are qualitatively similar to those features that were previously found to characterize samples of convicted sexual offenders.
K1 Personality
K1 Psychopathology
K1 college women
K1 sexually aggressive strategies
DO 10.1177/0886260518760010