Citation

Crawford JN, Leiting KA, Yeater EA, Verney SP, Lenberg KL. Violence Against Women 2017; 23(2): 163-177.

Affiliation

University of New Mexico Medical Group, Albuquerque, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801216640382

PMID

27053176

Abstract

This study evaluated the effects of ethnicity, sexual attitudes, and sexual victimization history on women's judgments of sexual victimization risk in a set of dating and social scenarios. An ethnically diverse sample of undergraduate women (n= 408) were asked to rate how risky the situations were in terms of having an unwanted sexual experience. American Indian women rated the situations as more risky than did non-Hispanic White or Hispanic women. In addition, participants with more positive attitudes toward a range of sexual experiences rated the situations as less risky than did women with less positive attitudes. Possible implications are discussed.

© The Author(s) 2016.

Language: en