RT Article
T1 Incapacitated and/or Forcible Rape Experience Predicting College Women's Rape Victim Empathy
JF Violence against women
VO 31
IS 6/7
SP 1712
OP 1724
A1 Osman, Suzanne L.
A1 Gingerich, Tieryn R.
A2 Gingerich, Tieryn R.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1922492329
AB Rape experience is common and victim empathy may help address it (e.g., prevention, victim support). We examined rape victim empathy based on type of rape experience (none, incapacitated, forcible, combined). Undergraduate women (n = 658) completed the Rape Victim Empathy-During Subscale and Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Victimization. Rape experience was associated with greater empathy, especially for those with any forcible experience. Perhaps due to weaker memory of their own rape event, incapacitated victims may be relatively less able than forcible victims to understand another victim's perspective during a rape. Researchers should consider examining incapacitated and forcible rape as distinct experiences.
K1 Empathy
K1 Rape
K1 forcible
K1 incapacitated
DO 10.1177/10778012241234897