Sex Role Ideology, Relationship Context, and Response to Sexual Coercion in College Females

This study examined the impacts of traditional sex role orientation and relationship context upon women’s responses to sexual coercion in a sample of 114 female undergraduates in the northwestern USA. We examined differences in the amount of time participants allowed a simulated sexually coercive si...

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Published in:Sex roles 2008-08, Vol.59 (3-4), p.139-150
Main Authors: Faulkner, Ginger E., Kolts, Russell L., Hicks, Gail F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitude towards mental illness
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Biological and medical sciences
Coercion
College Students
Date rape
Females
Femininity
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender identity
Gender Studies
Interpersonal Relations
Longitudinal Studies
Medical sciences
Medicine/Public Health
Original Article
Personal relationships
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Rape
Sex Role
Sex Role Identity
Sexual Behavior
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
Social psychology
Social role. Sex role
Sociology
Women
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Summary:This study examined the impacts of traditional sex role orientation and relationship context upon women’s responses to sexual coercion in a sample of 114 female undergraduates in the northwestern USA. We examined differences in the amount of time participants allowed a simulated sexually coercive situation to continue, comparing groups based upon the extent to which participants endorsed traditional feminine sex roles on the Sex Role Ideology Scale, as well as the context of the relationship in which such behaviors occurred, which was manipulated as an independent variable. Results indicated that individuals in the long-term relationship condition took significantly longer to terminate the vignette than did their peers. However, no significant effect of traditionality upon response latency was observed.
ISSN:0360-0025
1573-2762
DOI:10.1007/s11199-008-9435-1