TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - "I know it when i see it": recent victimization and perceptions of rape
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Haugen, Andrea D.
A1  - Salter, Phia
A1  - Phillips, Nia L.
SP  - 2938
EP  - 2959
VL  - 34
IS  - 14
N2  - This study examined various individual differences that influence perceptions of sexual assault (SA), specifically focusing on participants' self-reported recent experiences of rape or sexual coercion. Female college students (N = 214) read 16 short SA encounter vignettes, indicated whether what they read constituted rape, and completed individual difference measures. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that participants who confirmed a recent history of SA endorsed rape myths to a greater degree, held more adversarial sexual beliefs, reported higher levels of sociosexuality, and were less likely to construct the SA encounters as rape when compared with women who do not report recent SA or coercion. Further analyses showed that these variables interacted to predict rape perception in ambiguous SA vignettes, as identified by the participants. These findings illuminate some of the impacts of SA and coercion on women and provide suggestions for future research to further examine the relationship between recent assault history and perceptions of rape.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516664314
ID  - ref1
ER  -