Citation

Yeater EA, Witkiewitz K, López G, Ross RS, Vitek K, Bryan A. Violence Against Women 2018; 24(11): 1279-1298.

Affiliation

2 University of Colorado Boulder, CO, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801218787926

PMID

30078372

Abstract

This study used latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify at-risk profiles of college freshman women ( n = 481) using self-reports of alcohol consumption and sociosexuality. Analyses resulted in three profiles labeled low alcohol use-low sociosexuality, high alcohol use-medium sociosexuality, and high alcohol use-high sociosexuality. Baseline victimization predicted latent profile membership. More severely victimized women were more likely to be in the high alcohol-high sociosexuality profile than the high alcohol-medium sociosexuality and low alcohol-low sociosexuality profiles. At follow-up, the high alcohol-high sociosexuality profile had higher mean levels of victimization severity, relative to those in the high alcohol-medium sociosexuality and low alcohol-low sociosexuality profiles.

Language: en

Keywords

alcohol use; latent profile analysis; prospective study; sexual victimization; sociosexuality