Sexual victimization among male college students: Assault severity, sexual functioning, and health risk behaviors

SamaelET · 2022-02-03T00:00:28+00:00

Participants were 302 undergraduate men, from a medium-sized Midwestern University, the majority of whom were between the ages of 18 to 23 (M 19.2). The majority of the participants indicated they were heterosexual (95.7%),

In this study, 51.2% (N = 153) of male participants reported at least one experience of sexual victimization since age 16 with 5.6% reporting victimization experiences by male perpetrators, 48.4% by female perpetrators, and 3% by both sexes. When participants were placed in mutually exclusive groups based on the most severe type of victimization reported, 48.8% (N 146) reported none, 21.7% (N = 65) reported unwanted sexual contact, 12.4% (N = 37) reported sexual coercion, and 17.1% (N = 51) reported completed rape

Overall, results from this study demonstrate that (a) over half of the college men reported some form of sexual victimization; (b) men with sexual victimization experiences reported higher levels of weekly drinking, problematic drinking, tobacco use, sexual risk-taking behavior, and sexual dysfunction; and (c) those men with more severe sexual victimization experiences generally reported engaging in more health risk behaviors and experiencing more sexual dysfunctions than those who reported less severe experiences.

Half of male students had an experiences of sexual victimization, 94% of them were victimized by a woman. Victimization increase health risk behaviors and the likelyhood of sexual dysfunctions.

Title	Sexual victimization among male college students: Assault severity, sexual functioning, and health risk behaviors
Author	SamaelET
Upvotes	16
Comments	1
Date	February 2, 2022 11:54 PM UTC (2 years ago)
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