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effects of two acquaintance rape prevention education programs on rape-supportive beliefs among college students
Title
The effects of two acquaintance rape prevention education programs on rape-supportive beliefs among college students.
Creator
Forst, Linda S., Florida Atlantic University, Burrichter, Arthur W.
Abstract/Description
This study examined the effectiveness of two rape prevention programs on rape-supportive beliefs among college students. The participants were divided into three groups. One group participated in a didactic rape prevention program involving primarily lecture and video instruction. The second group participated in an experiential rape prevention program utilizing improvisational theater. The third group was the control group. The 55 participants completed two attitude scales developed by Burt ...
Show moreThis study examined the effectiveness of two rape prevention programs on rape-supportive beliefs among college students. The participants were divided into three groups. One group participated in a didactic rape prevention program involving primarily lecture and video instruction. The second group participated in an experiential rape prevention program utilizing improvisational theater. The third group was the control group. The 55 participants completed two attitude scales developed by Burt (1980): Adversarial Sexual Beliefs (ASB) and Rape Myth Acceptance (RMA). They then participated in their workshop and took the attitude scales again as a post-treatment test. Two weeks later, the participants took a follow-up post-treatment test using the same attitude scales. Results indicated there were no significant differences in effectiveness between the interventions in reducing rape-supportive beliefs. However, the didactic program produced a significant reduction in rape-supportive beliefs compared to the control group as measured by the RMA scale. Participants who had been victims of sexual assault scored significantly lower than non-victims in the ASB and RMA across all groups. It was also found that participants who had any previous experience with sexual assault, such as familiarity with a victim or an offender, scored significantly lower in rape-supportive beliefs after participating in the didactic program than participants who had no previous experience with sexual assault. Based on these findings, didactic programs appear to be the most effective format for reducing rape-supportive beliefs among college students.
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Date Issued
1993
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12355
Subject Headings
Rape--Prevention, Sex crimes, College students--Crimes against--Prevention, Acquaintance rape--Prevention
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SISTERS OF TAMAR AND DAUGHTERS OF EVE: THE EVANGELICAL VOICES OF #CHURCHTOO
Title
SISTERS OF TAMAR AND DAUGHTERS OF EVE: THE EVANGELICAL VOICES OF #CHURCHTOO.
Creator
Copley, Rachel, Caputi, Jane, Florida Atlantic University, Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Abstract/Description
White evangelical culture is investigated here regarding the ways that its fundamental theological beliefs propagate and maintain patriarchal assumptions surrounding women. These beliefs further function to legitimate men’s sexual abuse of women and girls. While official theological evangelical beliefs may seem benign, and perhaps commendable to some, a closer examination suggests the mobilization of those beliefs create the foundation for enslavement and destruction of women. The fundamental...
Show moreWhite evangelical culture is investigated here regarding the ways that its fundamental theological beliefs propagate and maintain patriarchal assumptions surrounding women. These beliefs further function to legitimate men’s sexual abuse of women and girls. While official theological evangelical beliefs may seem benign, and perhaps commendable to some, a closer examination suggests the mobilization of those beliefs create the foundation for enslavement and destruction of women. The fundamental beliefs undergirding evangelicalism propagate internalized oppression through patriarchal colonialism of women’s bodies, minds, and souls. Tactics of spiritual rape within White evangelical purity culture enact violence, control, and manipulation to appropriate and profit from the sacred power within the spirit of another. My analysis of #ChurchToo tweets demonstrates how formerly-evangelical women exorcize internalized patriarchal identities by reversing patriarchal myths, reclaiming, renaming and becoming Holy Haggard Hags who enact Righteous Fury through the Rage of Dreadful Women. Through the process of renaming and reclaiming, the confiscated and distorted power of the four Great Hags of Our Hidden History are recovered. The Myth of Evil Eve becomes “Ezer Kěnegdô,” Bathsheba the Innocent Lamb dethrones King David, Jezebel returns as a Confident, Clever, and Powerful Woman and her Spirit exorcises Satan’s Agents and Devouring Wolves, and Tamar the Trickster reappears as a Prophetess, with gifts to symbolize the collective power of sisterhood.
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Date Issued
2021
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013791
Subject Headings
Evangelicalism, Patriarchy, Sex crimes--Religious aspects, MeToo movement
Format
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EXAMINING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RAPE MYTH ACCEPTANCE, SEXUAL EXPERIENCES AND VICTIMIZATION AND RECOVERY-EFFICACY AMONG MINORITY WOMEN ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
Title
EXAMINING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN RAPE MYTH ACCEPTANCE, SEXUAL EXPERIENCES AND VICTIMIZATION AND RECOVERY-EFFICACY AMONG MINORITY WOMEN ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES.
Creator
Cooper, Ashley Leonhart, Emelianchik-Key, Kelly, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Counselor Education, College of Education
Abstract/Description
Sexual violence (SV) is a significant problem that impacts women on college campuses at an alarming rate (Fischer et al., 2018). The body of research published regarding women’s experiences with SV on college campuses disproportionately focuses on Caucasian women (Oney, 2018). Few studies address the specific concerns of minority women and their experiences with SV and even fewer studies serve to identify contributing factors to their recovery. In addition to the prevalence of SV on college...
Show moreSexual violence (SV) is a significant problem that impacts women on college campuses at an alarming rate (Fischer et al., 2018). The body of research published regarding women’s experiences with SV on college campuses disproportionately focuses on Caucasian women (Oney, 2018). Few studies address the specific concerns of minority women and their experiences with SV and even fewer studies serve to identify contributing factors to their recovery. In addition to the prevalence of SV on college campuses, the rates of rape myth acceptance (RMA) that have been studied among this age group focus primarily on White cisgender men and women, and again, are understudied in women who identify as racial/ethnic minorities (Oney, 2018). Research correlates high levels of RMA with a decreased willingness to accept recovery-promoting assistance post-SV, which reduces a survivor’s willingness to access to services such as counseling (Oney, 2018). The objective of this study was to determine if rape myth acceptance predicts recovery self-efficacy and if experiences of SV serve as a mediating variable between recovery-self efficacy and RMA in ethnic and racial minority college-age women. The results of this study indicate that RMA does not predict or mediate the variables of recovery self-efficacy and SV. A linear regression analysis was used to establish if RMA predicts recovery self-efficacy, the factors within the scales were not correlated and additional tests yielded non-statistically significant results; (b = -0.02, t = -0.29, p = .77). The study also was unable to provide evidence of experiences of SV being a mediating variable between RMA and recovery self-efficacy through a mediation analysis (b =.00, SE = .002, 95% CI = [-.004, .004], p =.89).
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Date Issued
2023
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014130
Subject Headings
Rape in universities and colleges, Sex crimes, Minority women, Counseling psychology
Format
Document (PDF)
Policy of Abuse: A Framework of Public Policy Dimensions Analyzing Systematic Sexual Violence in Bosnia
Title
Policy of Abuse: A Framework of Public Policy Dimensions Analyzing Systematic Sexual Violence in Bosnia.
Creator
Chary, Meena, Patterson, Patricia M., Florida Atlantic University
Abstract/Description
This dissertation asserts that systematic sexual violence was used as public policy by the Serbian government in Bosnia during the conflict of 1992-1995 to effect ethnic cleansing and genocide. Systematic sexual violence must be recognized as public policy in order for the global community to advance appropriate recommendations regarding the levels at which (in addition to individuals) institutions, organizations and particularly governments should be held accountable. Further, when...
Show moreThis dissertation asserts that systematic sexual violence was used as public policy by the Serbian government in Bosnia during the conflict of 1992-1995 to effect ethnic cleansing and genocide. Systematic sexual violence must be recognized as public policy in order for the global community to advance appropriate recommendations regarding the levels at which (in addition to individuals) institutions, organizations and particularly governments should be held accountable. Further, when govenm1ents not only fail in their responsibility to protect citizens but actually commit crimes against citizens, survivors are betrayed by the very institutions to which they look for protection. Public policy is indelibly linked to the actions of governments. Recognizing systematic sexual violence as public policy acknowledges the seriousness of that betrayal and is imperative to foster both personal and social healing. First, the dissertation develops a framework of policy dimensions consisting of the concepts of government initiation, public interest, actors and institutions, intent and goals, complicity and sanction, instruments and tools, and targets. Then, case study methodology is used to investigate records documenting the case of systematic sexual violence in Bosnia. By comparing the results of those investigations to the policy framework, the dissertation concludes that in Bosnia in the 1990s, systematic sexual violence was used as public policy. Sexual violence was systematically perpetrated on a mass scale by government-sanctioned agents, and administered using governmental organizational mechanisms. By discussing what has happened and is happening, to whom, and how, we can understand that systematic sexual violence is being used as a policy, how such a policy may be implemented and what its goals may be. We can also acknowledge the policy goals-- such as ethnic nationalism, genocide and ethnic cleansing-- associated with this policy of abuse and view systematic sexual violence as a critical part of overall concerted strategies to effect those policy goals.
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Date Issued
2007
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000605
Subject Headings
Sex crimes--Bosnia and Herzegovina, Women--Crimes against--Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslav War, 1991-1995--Atrocities, Bosnia and Herzegovina--Social policy
Format
Document (PDF)