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Vulnerability to sexual coercion among college women: A longitudinal study

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Two-year panel data on a random sample of 54 college women were used to assess the link between rape supportive attitudes, prior experiences with sexual coercion, and vulnerability to sexual coercion while in college. Analysis showed that (1) rape supportive attitudes had no effect on vulnerability to physical coercion, rape, or alcohol/drug-related nonconsensual sex, (2) rape supportive attitudes were not changed by experiences with coercion, and (3) prior sexual coerction did not predict vulnerability over a two-year period. There was an increase in unwanted sex through nonviolent means (lies, threats to end the relationship) over the two-year period for women who held sex role stereotyped beliefs and a decrease in nonviolent unwanted sex for women who endorsed rape myths. Otherwise, these college women's atiitudes and individual characteristics were generally not predictive of their risk for most sexual victimization.

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Kalof, L. Vulnerability to sexual coercion among college women: A longitudinal study. Gend. Issues 18, 47–58 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12147-001-0023-8

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