Sexual assault affects a
large proportion of women in the world. Although most rapes are committed by
one man, the act itself may be influenced by many (e.g., the peer group).
Hostile sexism (HS) has repeatedly been associated with men's rape proclivity,
but the influence exerted by the HS of the peer group on rape proclivity has
not been investigated. In this study, we explored the impact of perceived male
peer support to HS on participants' rape proclivity.
A sample of Spanish
undergraduate students from a university in the south of Spain (N = 134)
completed the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory. Immediately afterwards, they
received feedback on the supposed sexist responses of a peer group (high vs.
low in HS); we kept the benevolent sexism (BS) of the peer group at medium
levels. Next, we assessed participants' rape proclivity using acquaintance rape
scenarios.
Results showed an interaction between participants' own levels of HS
and information about the HS of the peer group. Men high in HS reported higher
rape proclivity in the high-HS peer-group condition than in the low-HS
peer-group condition. By contrast, information on the peer group did not affect
self-reported rape proclivity of men low in HS.
Results also corroborated the
relationship between participants' levels of HS and rape proclivity, and
expanded the literature by revealing an unexpected influence of participants'
BS on rape proclivity.
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- 1Universidad de Sevilla (http://www.us.es/eng), Spain mduransegura@us.es.
- 2Universidad de Granada, Spain.
- J Interpers Violence. 2016 Jan 12. pii: 0886260515624212.
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