Objective:
Survey and experimental
analog studies suggest that alcohol consumption contributes to perpetration of
sexual aggression. However, few studies have considered the temporal
association between naturally occurring episodes of drinking and subsequent
sexual aggression. This daily report study was designed to examine whether
alcohol consumption increases the odds of aggressive sexual activity within the
next 4 hours.
First-year male college
students (N = 427) completed daily online reports of drinking and
sexual activity for up to 56 days. Multilevel modeling was used to determine
whether drinking episodes increased the odds of the following outcomes
occurring within 4 hours: (a) aggressive sex with a new partner, (b)
non-aggressive sex with a new partner, (c) aggressive sex with a previous
partner, and (d) non-aggressive sex with a previous partner.
Drinking episodes increased
the odds of both aggressive and non-aggressive sex with a new partner. In
contrast, drinking episodes did not predict aggression involving previous
partners and decreased the odds of non-aggressive sex with a previous partner.
Contrary to hypotheses, individual difference variables associated with
propensity toward sexual aggression (sexual misperception, antisocial behavior,
hostility toward women) did not interact with daily alcohol.
The complex pattern of
results is more consistent with situational as opposed to pharmacological
effects of alcohol on sexual aggression and suggests that prevention efforts
focus on drinking contexts known to facilitate sexual activity.
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By: Maria Testa, Ph.D.,a,*, Kathleen A. Parks, Ph.D.,a Joseph H. Hoffman, M.A.,a Cory A. Crane, Ph.D.,a Kenneth E. Leonard,Ph.D.,a & Kathleen Shyhalla, Ph.D.a
Affiliations
aResearch Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, Buffalo,
New York
*Correspondence may be sent to Maria Testa at the Research
Institute on Addictions, University at Buffalo, 1021 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
14203, or via email at: testa@ria.buffalo.edu.
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