Sexual Revictimization: Affect Regulation as a Mediator (AREA)

性再受害：作为调解者的影响监管（AREA）

• 批准号: 7073202
• 负责人: HOLLY K ORCUTT
• 金额: $ 21.75万
• 依托单位: NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2011-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7073202
• 关键词: Internet; alcoholic beverage consumption; behavior prediction; behavioral /social science research tag; child abuse; clinical research; emotions; female; high risk behavior /lifestyle; human subject; mental health epidemiology; psychological stressor; psychological tests; questionnaires; rape; sex abuse; sex behavior; university student; women' s health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Sexual assault on college campuses is a significant social problem and results in significant negative consequences to the victim and society as a whole. Women who have experienced child sexual abuse are a particularly high risk group for later adult sexual assault. Unfortunately, risk-reduction prevention programs on campus have not been particularly effective with this higher risk group. Psychological distress, increased sexual activity, and alcohol use are three such variables that have been both consistently linked to increased risk of adult sexual assault among women with a history of child sexual abuse and may provide an opportunity for developing effective preventive interventions. Among women with a history of child sexual abuse, sexual activity and alcohol use may sometimes serve the function of reducing tension and regulating negative affect. This project will employ a longitudinal design which will follow a large (approximately 1000) culturally-diverse sample of women across 12 months (with five data collection points) in order to investigate whether the experience of psychological distress, secondary to child sexual abuse, and the use of sex and alcohol to regulate negative affect increases college women's risk of experiencing prospective sexual assault. In addition, this project incorporates a novel laboratory-based behavioral forecasting analogue of likelihood to use sex to regulate negative affect. The convergence between the behavioral-forecasting analogue and current questionnaire-based measurement will be examined as well as the ability to predict likelihood of prospective adult sexual assault based on responses to the behavioral analogue. The inclusion of the behavioral-forecasting analogue is designed to elucidate the specific processes through which use of sex to regulate negative affect may increase risk of sexual assault. Understanding the function of sexual behavior and alcohol use as well as the processes through which distress and particular affect regulation strategies may interact to increase risk for adult sexual assault will provide critical information about intervention targets for risk-reduction programming efforts.

描述（由申请人提供）：大学校园的性侵犯是一个重大的社会问题，会对受害者和整个社会产生重大负面影响。经历过儿童性虐待的妇女是后来的成人性侵犯的特别高风险组。不幸的是，校园内的降低风险预防计划并不是这个更高的风险组特别有效。心理困扰，性活动增加和饮酒是三个这样的变量，这些变量始终与具有儿童性虐待病史的妇女中成人性侵犯的风险增加有关，并且可能为制定有效的预防性干预提供了机会。在有儿童性虐待病史的妇女中，性行为和饮酒有时可能有助于减轻紧张和调节负面影响。该项目将采用纵向设计，该设计将遵循12个月（有五个数据收集点）的大型（大约1000）文化多样性的女性样本，以调查心理困扰的经历，继发于儿童性虐待以及使用性和酒精来调节负面影响的妇女是否会增加大学妇女遭受前瞻性性侵犯的风险。此外，该项目结合了一种新型的基于实验室的行为预测，以便使用性别来调节负面影响。将检查行为预测的类似物与当前问卷调查表之间的收敛性，以及根据对行为类似物的回答预测前瞻性成人性侵犯可能性的能力。旨在阐明使用性用来调节负面影响的特定过程可能会增加性侵犯的风险。了解性行为和饮酒的功能以及遇险和特定影响调节策略可能相互作用以增加成人性侵犯风险的过程，将为降低风险降低风险计划的干预目标提供关键信息。