Predictors of Sexual Coercion Against Women and Men: A Multilevel, Multinational Study of University Students

UnHope20 · 2021-05-29T02:27:45+00:00

Several explanations have been forwarded to account for sexual coercion in romantic relationships. Feminist theory states that sexual coercion is the result of male dominance over women and the need to maintain that dominance; however, studies showing that women sexually coerce men point towards weaknesses in that theory.

Some researchers have, therefore, suggested that it is the extent to which people view the other gender as hostile that influences these rates. Furthermore, much research suggests that a history of childhood sexual abuse is a strong risk factor for later sexual victimization in relationships.

Few researchers have empirically evaluated the first two explanations and little is known about whether sexual revictimization operates for men or across cultures.

In this study, hierarchical linear modeling was used to investigate whether the status of women and adversarial sexual beliefs predicted differences in sexual coercion across 38 sites from around the world, and whether sexual revictimization operated across genders and cultures.

Participants included 7,667 university students from 38 sites. Results showed that the relative status of women at each site predicted significant differences in levels of sexual victimization for men, in that the greater the status of women, the higher the level of forced sex against men.

In addition, differences in adversarial sexual beliefs across sites significantly predicted both forced and verbal sexual coercion for both genders, such that greater levels of hostility towards women at a site predicted higher levels of forced and verbal coercion against women and greater levels of hostility towards men at a site predicted higher levels of forced and verbal coercion against men.

Finally, sexual revictimization occurred for both genders and across all sites, suggesting that sexual revictimization is a cross-gender, cross-cultural phenomenon.

Title	Predictors of Sexual Coercion Against Women and Men: A Multilevel, Multinational Study of University Students
Author	UnHope20
Upvotes	7
Comments	5
Date	May 29, 2021 1:37 AM UTC (5 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/Male_Studies
Original Link	https://old.reddit.com/r/Male_Studies/comments/nncoib/predictors_of_sexual_coercion_against_women_and/
Archive Link	https://theredarchive.com/r/Male_Studies/predictors-of-sexual-coercion-against-women-and.1216345 https://theredarchive.com/post/1216345

Comments