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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"sexual aggression"”.
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Can the confluence model predict female sexual aggression?
… to test the pathways of the Confluence Model of Sexual Aggression (Malamuth, Heavey & Linz, 1996) for prediction of self-reported female sexual aggression utilizing various computerized measures with college aged female participants (n = 104). The confluence model states that sexual aggression is …
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Religiosity as a protective factor against sexual aggression
… protective nature of religiosity against sexual aggression was investigated. This was accomplished by using a laboratory analogue of sexual harassment that uses sexually oriented joke telling to mimic sexual harassment among peers in the real world. It was hypothesized that religiosity …
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Effects of violent video games on sexual aggression in males
… violent video game play and engagement in sexually aggressive behaviors. In this study, participants were randomly assigned to play 15 minutes of Grand Theft Auto (experimental group) or Tetris Evolution (control group) on an Xbox. After game play, participants engaged in a joke telling …
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College students' alcohol use, sexual aggression, and beliefs about sexual consent
… practices, reduced understanding and practice of sexual consent, and sexual aggression (e.g., coercion, unwanted physical contact, or rape). The aim of this study was to expand the current literature by assessing the degree to which college students’ self report of no, low/moderate, and heavy …
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Sexual aggression and victimization among college students in Brazil : prevalence and vulnerability factors
Despite the increased attention devoted to sexual aggression among young people in the international scientific literature, Brazil has little research on the subject exclusively among this group. There is evidence that sexual aggression and victimization may start early. Identifying the magnitude …
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Authoritarianism, Hostility Toward Women, Attitudes Toward Violence, Rape Myth Acceptance, and Sexual Aggression
… women has been, or will have been, the victim of sexual aggression and/or rape in their lives (National Institute of Justice, 2000). This staggering statistic exemplifies the importance of speculating which traits are related to, or are predictive of, sexually aggressive behavior. Based on …
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Predicting sexual aggression among college men: the role of male peer groups and sexualized media
… the confluence model (Malamuth et al., 1991) of sexual aggression with a population of contemporary college men. The confluence model is the theory most commonly used to predict sexual assault perpetration among college men and is composed of two intercorrelated pathways: hostile masculinity and …
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Navigating The Manosphere: An Examination Of The Incel Movements’ Attitudes Of Sexual Aggression And Violence Against Women
… women, male victimization and oppression, sexual entitlement, and masculinity crises. </p>
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An investigation of sexual narcissism as a predictor of sexual assault
While narcissism has been linked to aggression, studies directly examining the relationship of narcissism with sexual aggression have yielded inconsistent results. This is likely due to the global measures of narcissism used. These measures are not sensitive to whether the components of narcissism …
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Personality characteristics, attitudes and perceptions of rape among incarcerated sex offenders
… that dispositional variables are determinants of sexual aggression. Research has also shown that situational variables, such as alcohol and anger, are recurrent proximal determinants of sexual aggression. This study pursued four main goals. First, we attempted to replicate Malamuth's Confluence …
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Attentional biases and PTSD symptomology in victims of sexual assault and motor vehicle accidents
… population, motor vehicle accidents (MVAs) and sexual assaults. The flicker paradigm, used to measure change detection, was utilized to examine hypersensitivity to environments with threatening stimuli in individuals whom experienced either of these traumas. The paradigm monitored reaction times …
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An Evolutionary Perspective of Human Female Rape
… socio-economic status; rape proclivity; actual sexual aggression; and sociosexual orientation. There were two types of studies: studies 1-3 involved archival data, e.g. the use of criminal statistics. and studies 4-7 assessed participant data, e.g. rape attitudes. Study 1 found that fertility …
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Sexual and Non-Sexual Juvenile Offenders: Developmental Antecedents and Behavioral Outcomes
… study which explores the causes and patterns of sexual aggression by adolescent males incarcerated in residential treatment. The sample of interest included 504 male adolescents who were adjudicated delinquent and sanctioned to residential treatment for the commission of sexual and non-sexual …
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Sex positionality : a history of the role of gender and race in mid-to-late-twentieth-century evangelical sex literature.
… authors created different rhetorics, ideals, and sexual ethics based on their gendered and racial positions in evangelicalism. I first look to gender and argue that in the 1970s, female authors more readily connected sex to the salvation of the individual, family, and nation. Amid more rigid …
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Comparison of the incidence of sexual victimization and sexual aggressiveness among Greek affiliated and nongreek affiliated undergraduate students
… studies have suggested that the incidence of sexual violence within the college community is extremely pervasive {Finley & Corty, 1993; Koss & Oros, 1982; Muehlenhard & Linton, 1987). Popular media has targeted alcohol and Greek organizations as primary causes of sexual aggression on campus. …
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Three Essays on the Quality of Marriage
… immediately after the first physical or sexual aggression from the husband, and decreasing afterwards. In the third essay I evaluate the role of domestic violence as a causal mechanism in the effect of civil conflict violence on a woman's labor force participation. Using data on the civil …
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Investigations of delayed plumage maturation in the orchard oriole
… in the orchard oriole does not reduce intra-sexual aggression directed toward subadults during the breeding season. I attribute these different results to differences among species in the reliability of plumage cues of sex and age. In a second study, I examined winter adaptation hypotheses …
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A psychoanalytical approach to Harold Pinter’s plays :Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party
… complex, the castration complex, the ‘uncanny,’ aggression and dream analysis, and by providing an alternative understanding Pinter’s plays from a psychoanalytical point of view. The method used herein involves critical analysis, starting with a close reading of the abovementioned works and …
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Walk like a man: a content analysis of anti-sexual violence websites for men
… the first step in examining the messages of anti-sexual assault websites that target men as perpetrators. The overarching question it set out to answer was whether these sites perpetuate rape myth acceptance. The study began with a literature review of rape myth acceptance theory and anti-sexual …
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