@article{ref1,
title="Predicting college women's self-esteem based on verbal coercion experience and verbal tactic items on the Revised Sexual Experiences Survey",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2021",
author="Osman, Suzanne L. and Lane, Halle L.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Verbal coercion experience is common among college women and has sometimes been associated with lower self-esteem. The current study examined self-esteem based on the two verbal coercion items included in the latest version of the most popular measure of sexual victimization experience, the Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV; Koss et al., 2007). One item includes verbal tactics categorized as &quot;threat&quot; and the other item includes verbal tactics categorized as &quot;criticism.&quot; Undergraduate women (n = 479) completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale and the SES-SFV. <br><br>RESULTS showed that women who experienced criticism reported lower self-esteem than those who did not experience criticism. However, threat experience was not significantly related to women's self-esteem. <br><br>FINDINGS support Koss et al.'s suggestion that criticism tactics are more negative than threat tactics, and imply that self-esteem may be negatively associated with some sexually coercive verbal tactics but not associated with others. Future researchers should pay careful attention to operational definitions of verbal coercion.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/08862605211062989",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08862605211062989"
}