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Sexual Coercion Perpetration and Victimization: Gender Similarities and Differences in Adolescence
Autor(es)
Materia
Sexual assault
Prevention
Adolescent victims
Offenders
Fecha de publicación
2018
Resumen
Sexual coercion is a worldwide health problem that endangers the well-being
of those involved. In the same line of the most recent and comprehensive
studies, this study sought to investigate the extent of sexual coercion,
both perpetration and victimization, among male and female adolescents.
Moreover, it jointly analyzed the predictive power of different variables
that have been considered as useful to design preventive programs. For
this purpose, a cross-sectional study, using proportional stratified cluster
sampling, was performed and 1,242 Spanish adolescents (15-19 years old)
were surveyed. Results show that both genders had reported committing
and suffering sexual coercion. However, perpetration was reported more
often by males: no significant gender difference was found in victimization.
It was also concluded that need for control and power, normative beliefs
about sexual coercion, hostile sexism, negative alcohol expectancies, and
sociosexual orientation were significant predictors of perpetration for both genders. Concerning victimization, need for control and power and
normative beliefs were found to be significant predictors for males and
females, as were negative alcohol expectancies and sexual esteem, though
only for males. According to these results, both genders can be both
perpetrators and victims of sexual coercion in adolescence, but not to the
same extent. Moreover, preventive programs should include activities related
to perpetration and victimization, taking into account the effectiveness of
their components to intervene with male and female adolescents.
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ISSN
0886-2605
DOI
10.1177/088626051877430
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