Early research on sexual aggression
(e.g., sexual coercion, sexual assault, and rape) mainly focused on men as
perpetrators and women as victims; more recently, researchers have begun to
investigate women as perpetrators of sexual aggression as well. However, most
measures of sexual aggression perpetration were designed for use with men and
have not been well validated with women.
This study sought to examine two
different measures of sexual aggression perpetration in terms of their
convergent validity for both men and women and to examine gender differences
and similarities in item interpretation using open-ended inquiries.
Participants were 590 individuals (395 women, 195 men) with a mean age of 25
years (SD = 8.1) recruited from an undergraduate psychology subject
pool and an online convenience sample. The majority of the sample was White
(65.4%) and Black (20.3%). All measures were completed online anonymously.
Results suggested that convergent validity for the two measures was less than
optimal, particularly for women. Further, item interpretation analyses revealed
that, compared to men, more than twice the percentage of women provided a
false-positive response to one of the measures, suggesting that women may be
more likely than men to endorse self-report perpetration items incorrectly.
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By:
- 1 Community Psychological Service , University of Missouri-Saint Louis.
- 2 Department of Psychology , University of Missouri-Saint Louis.
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