Factors predictive of sexual violence: Testing the four pillars of the Confluence Model in a large diverse sample of college men

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil M. Malamuth ◽  
Raina V. Lamade ◽  
Mary P. Koss ◽  
Elise Lopez ◽  
Christopher Seaman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
College Men ◽  
Confluence Model

scholarly journals Preventing sexual violence in college men: a randomized-controlled trial of GlobalConsent

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn M. Yount ◽  
Tran Hung Minh ◽  
Quach Thu Trang ◽  
Yuk Fai Cheong ◽  
Irina Bergenfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
College Men ◽  
Randomized Controlled

Commentary on Foubert, Godin, & Tatum (2010)

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (16) ◽  
pp. 3383-3392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andra Teten Tharp ◽  
Sarah DeGue ◽  
Karen Lang ◽  
Linda Anne Valle ◽  
Greta Massetti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Prevention Program ◽  
College Men ◽  
Prevention Programs ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Rigorous Evaluation ◽  
Sexual Violence Prevention ◽  
Violence Prevention Program ◽  
Violence Prevention Programs

Foubert, Godin, and Tatum describe qualitative effects among college men of The Men’s Program, a one-session sexual violence prevention program. This article and the program it describes are representative of many sexual violence prevention programs that are in practice and provide an opportunity for a brief discussion of the development and evaluation of sexual violence prevention approaches. In this commentary, we will focus on two considerations for an evolving field: the adherence to the principles of prevention and the use of rigorous evaluation methods to demonstrate effectiveness. We argue that the problem of sexual violence has created urgency for effective prevention programs and that scientific and prevention standards provide the best foundation to meet this need.

scholarly journals Extending the ACEs Framework: Examining the Relations Between Childhood Abuse and Later Victimization and Perpetration With College Men

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (17-18) ◽  
pp. 3487-3512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura A. Voith ◽  
RaeAnn E. Anderson ◽  
Shawn P. Cahill
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Emotional Abuse ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
College Men ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
Psychological Aggression ◽  
The Past

Research has revealed that forms of violence are interconnected, but less work focuses on the interconnection of victimization and perpetration, particularly with men. Subsequently, our understanding of the complexities of violence exposure in men’s lives and related policies and treatments remains limited. The present study utilizes a sample of at-risk for violence involvement, college men, to examine the relationships between childhood victimization, adulthood victimization, and adulthood perpetration. Participants are 423 college men receiving course credit who completed a battery of standardized questionnaires via an anonymous web survey. Logistic regression is used. Results indicate that 27% of the men report polyperpetration (two or more types of perpetration), 43.5% report polyvictimization (two or more types of victimization), and 60% report experiencing both forms of victimization and perpetration in the past year. Childhood physical abuse has predictive power for perpetration (psychological aggression and polyperpetration) and victimization (sexual violence, psychological aggression, and polyvictimization) for the men in the past year. Childhood sexual abuse has strong predictive power for perpetration (physical violence, sexual violence, and polyperpetration) and victimization (physical violence and sexual violence) with the men in the past year. Finally, emotional abuse has predictive power for victimization (physical violence and psychological aggression), but not perpetration, for the men in the past year. Developmental psychopathology and the adverse childhood experiences frameworks are used to posit potential pathways explaining the relation between childhood abuse and the overlap between victimization and perpetration in adulthood for men. Implications of this study include the use of trauma-informed models of care with men and expanding the scope of study to examine experiences of both victimization and perpetration, and various types of violence, among men.

Predictors of perpetration of verbal, physical, and sexual violence: A prospective analysis of college men.

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine A. Gidycz ◽  
Jennifer B. Warkentin ◽  
Lindsay M. Orchowski
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
College Men ◽  
Prospective Analysis

Empathy as a moderator of sexual violence perpetration risk factors among college men

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Matthew D. Hudson-Flege ◽  
Holly M. Grover ◽  
Merita H. Meçe ◽  
Athena K. Ramos ◽  
Martie P. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
College Men ◽  
Violence Perpetration

scholarly journals Testing the Confluence Model of the Association between Pornography Use and Sexual Aggression: A Longitudinal Assessment in Two Independent Adolescent Samples

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor Kohut ◽  
Ivan Landripet ◽  
Aleksandar Stulhofer
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Aggression ◽  
Causal Role ◽  
Longitudinal Assessment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Confluence Model ◽  
Independent Panel ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
Temporal Ordering

According to Confluence Model theorizing, pornography use contributes to sexual violence, but only among men who are predisposed to sexual aggression. Support for this assertion is limited to cross-sectional research, which cannot speak to the temporal ordering of assumed causes and consequences. To address this issue we employed generalized linear mixed modeling to determine if hostile masculinity, impersonal sexuality, and pornography, and their interactions, predicted change in the odds of subsequently reported sexual aggression in two independent panel samples of male Croatian adolescents. While we observed the link between hostile masculinity and self-reported sexual aggression in both panels, we found no evidence that impersonal sexuality and pornography use increased the odds of subsequently reporting sexual aggression—regardless of participants’ predisposed risk. This study’s findings are difficult to reconcile with view that pornography use plays a causal role in male sexual violence.

Theoretical Mediators of RealConsent: A Web-Based Sexual Violence Prevention and Bystander Education Program

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura F. Salazar ◽  
Alana Vivolo-Kantor ◽  
Anne Marie Schipani-McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Date Rape ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
College Men ◽  
Multiple Mediation ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Rape Attitudes ◽  
Multiple Mediator Model ◽  
Bystander Behaviors

This study examined the process by which a web-based sexual violence (SV) prevention program (i.e., RealConsent) prevents SV perpetration and increases bystander behaviors. Data from 743 college men who participated in a randomized controlled trial were analyzed. Simple and multiple-mediation models were estimated, using several theoretical constructs to assess the mechanisms through which RealConsent produced significant effects on SV perpetration and prosocial bystander or intervening behaviors. The results indicated that knowledge of effective consent for sex, hostility toward women, date rape attitudes, and hyper-gender male ideology significantly mediated the effects of RealConsent on SV perpetration in the multiple-mediator model. Furthermore, intentions to intervene significantly mediated the effects of RealConsent on prosocial bystander behaviors in the multiple-mediator model. The results show that the RealConsent program works to prevent SV perpetration and prosocial bystander behaviors via several theoretically proposed mediators central to the development and content of the program. The results also provide strong evidence that SV and bystander education for college men may benefit from including an explicit focus on decreasing negative norms related to women (e.g., hostility, date rape attitudes, hyper-gender ideology) and through increasing college men’s knowledge of consent and intentions to intervene.

Predicting Bystander Efficacy and Willingness to Intervene in College Men and Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 692-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Foubert ◽  
Ana J. Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Research Universities ◽  
College Men ◽  
Bystander Intervention ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Willingness To Intervene ◽  
Pornography Use ◽  
Logistic Regressions

Students from two research universities completed items measuring the frequency of their using different kinds of pornography, and measures of their willingness and intent to intervene to help a bystander who might be experiencing sexual violence. Hierarchical logistic regressions showed that for men, violent/degrading pornography use, but not explicit but non-degrading pornography use, was significantly associated with reduced bystander willingness to intervene, but not associated with bystander efficacy. Women did not show the same impact of violent/degrading pornography use on the two bystander intervention variables. Results suggest violence/degrading pornography may contribute to a culture of acceptance of violence against women.

scholarly journals Discordance between the Sexual Experiences Surveys-Short Forms and the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales in College Men

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
RaeAnn Elizabeth Anderson ◽  
Shawn P Cahill ◽  
Douglas L. Delahanty
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Sexual Coercion ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
Short Form ◽  
College Men ◽  
Order Effect ◽  
Sexual Experiences ◽  
Sexual Perpetration ◽  
Conflict Tactics Scales ◽  
Conflict Tactics

Objective: Sexual victimization affects at least one in five college women and up to one in six college men; however, the exact rates of sexual perpetration are difficult to ascertain because of inconsistencies in the measurement of these behaviors. The present study is the first to evaluate the extent to which three commonly used measures of sexual violence (The Sexual Experiences Survey- Short Form Victimization (SES-SFV), The Sexual Experiences Survey-Short Form Perpetration (SES-SFP) and the Revised Conflicts Tactics Scales-Sexual Coercion Subscale (CTS2-SC)) concurred in identifying cases of sexual victimization and sexual perpetration. This is the first study to simultaneously examine victimization and perpetration, provide kappa estimates of discordance, and control for order of survey administration effects.Methods: Undergraduate men (N = 397) completed the study measures in a randomized order.Results: The SES-SFV identified 109 cases of sexual victimization (27.5% of the sample) while the CTS2-SC identified 164 cases (41.3% of the sample). Results were similar for sexual perpetration. There was no effect of the order of administration on sexual victimization reports. However, there was an order effect for sexual perpetration. When the CTS2-SC was administered first response rates on the CTS2-SC were higher.Conclusions: These results highlight the lack of precision in the measurement of sexual violence. Conceptually, the SESs should identify a greater number of cases; yet we consistently found that the CTS2-SC identified more cases of sexual violence. We suggest that differences in the instructional cues, internal item structure, and measure structure may account for these differences.

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