TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Predicting college women's self-esteem based on verbal coercion experience and verbal tactic items on the Revised Sexual Experiences Survey
JO  - Journal of interpersonal violence
A1  - Osman, Suzanne L.
A1  - Lane, Halle L.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - 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 "threat" and the other item includes verbal tactics categorized as "criticism." 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0886-2605
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/08862605211062989
ID  - ref1
ER  -