Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. This study extends past research by examining predictors of different types of sexual assault perpetration in a community sample. Computer-assisted self-interviews were conducted with a representative sample of men in one large urban community. As hypothesized, many variables that are significant predictors of sexual assault perpetration in college student samples were also significant predictors in this sample, including empathy, adult attachment, attitudes about casual sex, sexual dominance, alcohol consumption in sexual situations, and peer approval of forced sex.
For most measures, the strongest differences were between nonassaulters and men who committed acts that met standard legal definitions of rape.
Men who committed forced sexual contact and verbal coercion tended to have scores that fell in between those of the other two groups. The implications of these findings are discussed for community-based sexual assault prevention programs. Only a handful of researchers have examined the predictors of sexual assault perpetration in community samples.
Calhoun, Bernat, Clum, and Frame asked 65 young male residents of a Southern rural community who had been in an earlier study to complete their survey.
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Delinquency, hostility toward women, anger, dating frequency, alcohol consumption on dates, and sexual promiscuity were included as potential predictors of sexual assault perpetration.
